linux/drivers/net/wireless/marvell
Gustavo A. R. Silva c5047d5b83 libertas: 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 7649773293 ("cxgb3/l2t: Fix undefined behaviour")

Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200225011709.GA601@embeddedor
2020-03-23 19:00:31 +02:00
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libertas libertas: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member 2020-03-23 19:00:31 +02:00
libertas_tf libertas_tf: Use correct channel range in lbtf_geo_init 2019-07-24 14:53:40 +03:00
mwifiex mwifiex: set needed_headroom, not hard_header_len 2020-03-12 15:41:50 +02:00
Kconfig treewide: Add SPDX license identifier - Makefile/Kconfig 2019-05-21 10:50:46 +02:00
Makefile treewide: Add SPDX license identifier - Makefile/Kconfig 2019-05-21 10:50:46 +02:00
mwl8k.c mac80211: simplify TX aggregation start 2019-10-04 13:58:13 +02:00