From: Gustavo A. R. Silva Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2020 13:56:29 +0000 (-0600) Subject: bonding: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member X-Git-Url: http://git.maquefel.me/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=749db093040788ff474937d2452d4cf0176b5a1f;p=linux.git bonding: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member The current codebase makes use of the zero-length array language extension to the C90 standard, but the preferred mechanism to declare variable-length types such as these ones is a flexible array member[1][2], introduced in C99: struct foo { int stuff; struct boo array[]; }; By making use of the mechanism above, we will get a compiler warning in case the flexible array does not occur last in the structure, which will help us prevent some kind of undefined behavior bugs from being inadvertently introduced[3] to the codebase from now on. Also, notice that, dynamic memory allocations won't be affected by this change: "Flexible array members have incomplete type, and so the sizeof operator may not be applied. As a quirk of the original implementation of zero-length arrays, sizeof evaluates to zero."[1] This issue was found with the help of Coccinelle. [1] https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Zero-Length.html [2] https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/21 [3] commit 76497732932f ("cxgb3/l2t: Fix undefined behaviour") Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- diff --git a/include/net/bonding.h b/include/net/bonding.h index 3d56b026bb9e7..dc2ce31a1f523 100644 --- a/include/net/bonding.h +++ b/include/net/bonding.h @@ -183,7 +183,7 @@ struct slave { struct bond_up_slave { unsigned int count; struct rcu_head rcu; - struct slave *arr[0]; + struct slave *arr[]; }; /*