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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
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Kconfig | ||
Makefile | ||
nitrox_aead.c | ||
nitrox_algs.c | ||
nitrox_common.h | ||
nitrox_csr.h | ||
nitrox_debugfs.c | ||
nitrox_debugfs.h | ||
nitrox_dev.h | ||
nitrox_hal.c | ||
nitrox_hal.h | ||
nitrox_isr.c | ||
nitrox_isr.h | ||
nitrox_lib.c | ||
nitrox_main.c | ||
nitrox_mbx.c | ||
nitrox_mbx.h | ||
nitrox_req.h | ||
nitrox_reqmgr.c | ||
nitrox_skcipher.c | ||
nitrox_sriov.c |