From 9106137c6f0d0d959a855ad6885c6b3cb010ff98 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2020 18:09:37 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] libnvdimm/region: 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 Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200319230937.GA16648@embeddedor.com Signed-off-by: Dan Williams --- drivers/nvdimm/nd.h | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/nvdimm/nd.h b/drivers/nvdimm/nd.h index c9f6a5b5253a..2cf77bc859c1 100644 --- a/drivers/nvdimm/nd.h +++ b/drivers/nvdimm/nd.h @@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ struct nd_region_data { int ns_count; int ns_active; unsigned int hints_shift; - void __iomem *flush_wpq[0]; + void __iomem *flush_wpq[]; }; static inline void __iomem *ndrd_get_flush_wpq(struct nd_region_data *ndrd, @@ -156,7 +156,7 @@ struct nd_region { struct nd_interleave_set *nd_set; struct nd_percpu_lane __percpu *lane; int (*flush)(struct nd_region *nd_region, struct bio *bio); - struct nd_mapping mapping[0]; + struct nd_mapping mapping[]; }; struct nd_blk_region {