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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2020-06-16 17:23:57 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2020-06-16 17:23:57 -0700
commitffbc93768e9d3a3dafdd90124b1244b4723d30e8 (patch)
tree2f4fe646933a734f9cab8ccb8b723b6050f6f640 /arch
parentff58155ca4fa7e931f34d948fa09fe14c6a66116 (diff)
parent76fafbfffb447d2a5a95d5a9486b0217c00f9785 (diff)
Merge tag 'flex-array-conversions-5.8-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gustavoars/linux
Pull flexible-array member conversions from Gustavo A. R. Silva: "Replace zero-length arrays with flexible-array members. Notice that all of these patches have been baking in linux-next for two development cycles now. There is a regular need in the kernel to provide a way to declare having a dynamically sized set of trailing elements in a structure. Kernel code should always use “flexible array members”[1] for these cases. The older style of one-element or zero-length arrays should no longer be used[2]. C99 introduced “flexible array members”, which lacks a numeric size for the array declaration entirely: struct something { size_t count; struct foo items[]; }; This is the way the kernel expects dynamically sized trailing elements to be declared. It allows the compiler to generate errors when the flexible array does not occur last in the structure, which helps to prevent some kind of undefined behavior[3] bugs from being inadvertently introduced to the codebase. It also allows the compiler to correctly analyze array sizes (via sizeof(), CONFIG_FORTIFY_SOURCE, and CONFIG_UBSAN_BOUNDS). For instance, there is no mechanism that warns us that the following application of the sizeof() operator to a zero-length array always results in zero: struct something { size_t count; struct foo items[0]; }; struct something *instance; instance = kmalloc(struct_size(instance, items, count), GFP_KERNEL); instance->count = count; size = sizeof(instance->items) * instance->count; memcpy(instance->items, source, size); At the last line of code above, size turns out to be zero, when one might have thought it represents the total size in bytes of the dynamic memory recently allocated for the trailing array items. Here are a couple examples of this issue[4][5]. Instead, flexible array members have incomplete type, and so the sizeof() operator may not be applied[6], so any misuse of such operators will be immediately noticed at build time. The cleanest and least error-prone way to implement this is through the use of a flexible array member: struct something { size_t count; struct foo items[]; }; struct something *instance; instance = kmalloc(struct_size(instance, items, count), GFP_KERNEL); instance->count = count; size = sizeof(instance->items[0]) * instance->count; memcpy(instance->items, source, size); instead" [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexible_array_member [2] https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/21 [3] commit 76497732932f ("cxgb3/l2t: Fix undefined behaviour") [4] commit f2cd32a443da ("rndis_wlan: Remove logically dead code") [5] commit ab91c2a89f86 ("tpm: eventlog: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member") [6] https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Zero-Length.html * tag 'flex-array-conversions-5.8-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gustavoars/linux: (41 commits) w1: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array tracing/probe: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array soc: ti: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array tifm: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array dmaengine: tegra-apb: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array stm class: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array Squashfs: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array ASoC: SOF: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array ima: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array sctp: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array phy: samsung: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array RxRPC: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array rapidio: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array media: pwc: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array firmware: pcdp: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array oprofile: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array block: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array tools/testing/nvdimm: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array libata: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array kprobes: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array ...
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r--arch/ia64/kernel/unwind_i.h2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/ia64/kernel/unwind_i.h b/arch/ia64/kernel/unwind_i.h
index 67994a7e5816..1dd57ba44327 100644
--- a/arch/ia64/kernel/unwind_i.h
+++ b/arch/ia64/kernel/unwind_i.h
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ enum unw_register_index {
struct unw_info_block {
u64 header;
- u64 desc[0]; /* unwind descriptors */
+ u64 desc[]; /* unwind descriptors */
/* personality routine and language-specific data follow behind descriptors */
};