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>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200220132908.GA30501@embeddedor
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Pull staging and IIO updates from Greg KH:
"Here is the big staging/iio driver patches for 5.6-rc1
Included in here are:
- lots of new IIO drivers and updates for that subsystem
- the usual huge quantity of minor cleanups for staging drivers
- removal of the following staging drivers:
- isdn/avm
- isdn/gigaset
- isdn/hysdn
- octeon-usb
- octeon ethernet
Overall we deleted far more lines than we added, removing over 40k of
old and obsolete driver code.
All of these changes have been in linux-next for a while with no
reported issues"
* tag 'staging-5.6-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging: (353 commits)
staging: most: usb: check for NULL device
staging: next: configfs: fix release link
staging: most: core: fix logging messages
staging: most: core: remove container struct
staging: most: remove struct device core driver
staging: most: core: drop device reference
staging: most: remove device from interface structure
staging: comedi: drivers: fix spelling mistake "to" -> "too"
staging: exfat: remove fs_func struct.
staging: wilc1000: avoid mutex unlock without lock in wilc_wlan_handle_txq()
staging: wilc1000: return zero on success and non-zero on function failure
staging: axis-fifo: replace spinlock with mutex
staging: wilc1000: remove unused code prior to throughput enhancement in SPI
staging: wilc1000: added 'wilc_' prefix for 'struct assoc_resp' name
staging: wilc1000: move firmware API struct's to separate header file
staging: wilc1000: remove use of infinite loop conditions
staging: kpc2000: rename variables with kpc namespace
staging: vt6656: Remove memory buffer from vnt_download_firmware.
staging: vt6656: Just check NEWRSR_DECRYPTOK for RX_FLAG_DECRYPTED.
staging: vt6656: Use vnt_rx_tail struct for tail variables.
...
Checkpatch reports 'WARNING: printk() should include KERN_<LEVEL>
facility level'. Fix this by specifying a relevant KERN_<LEVEL> value
for each line in which it was missing.
Once they are fixed, checkpatch reports 'WARNING: Prefer [subsystem eg:
netdev]_dbg([subsystem]dev, ... then dev_dbg(dev, ... then
pr_debug(... to printk(KERN_DEBUG ...'. Fix this by replacing
relevant printk_<level> statements with their netdev_<level>
equivalent.
Signed-off-by: Paulo Miguel Almeida <paulo.miguel.almeida.rodenas@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200115101208.GA683742@localhost.localdomain
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
In order to make the entire kernel usable under Clang's Control Flow
Integrity protections, function prototype casts need to be avoided
because this will trip CFI checks at runtime (i.e. a mismatch between
the caller's expected function prototype and the destination function's
prototype). Many of these cases can be found with -Wcast-function-type,
which found that the rtl wifi drivers had a bunch of needless function
casts. Remove function casts for tasklet callbacks in the various drivers.
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/201911150926.2894A4F973@keescook
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
When the number of bytes to be printed exceeds the limit snprintf
returns the number of bytes that would have been printed (if there was
no truncation). This might cause issues, hence use scnprintf which
returns the actual number of bytes printed to buffer always.
Signed-off-by: Rohit Sarkar <rohitsarkar5398@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190910182415.GA5768@SARKAR
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Fixes gcc '-Wunused-but-set-variable' warning:
drivers/staging/rtl8192u/ieee80211/ieee80211_crypt_ccmp.c:
In function ieee80211_ccmp_encrypt:
drivers/staging/rtl8192u/ieee80211/ieee80211_crypt_ccmp.c:162:6:
warning: variable data_len set but not used [-Wunused-but-set-variable]
It is not used since commit eb0e7bf3ca ("staging:
rtl8192u: ieee80211: ieee80211_crypt_ccmp.c: Use crypto API ccm(aes)")
Reported-by: Hulk Robot <hulkci@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: YueHaibing <yuehaibing@huawei.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190821122250.71404-1-yuehaibing@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
The coding-styles.rst states, that multiline comments should
allways contain a leading "*" in each line.
For multiline comments in general they
/*
* should look
* like this.
*/
For multiline comments in either net/ or drivers/net/ however,
they should
/* omit
* the first
* empty line.
*/
Since this file is part of a networking driver, the goal for it would
be to reside in drivers/net/ one day.
This patch changes comments, that were in neither form of the two listed
above, to have the style that is specified for drivers/net/.
Signed-off-by: Christian Müller <muellerch-privat@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Felix Trommer <felix.trommer@hotmail.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190701082707.25198-2-muellerch-privat@web.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
As stated in coding-styles.rst multiline comments should be structured in a way,
that the actual comment starts on the second line of the commented portion. E.g:
/*
* Multiline comments
* should look like
* this.
*/
However, there is an exception to files in drivers/net/ and net/, where
multiline comments are prefered to look like this:
/* Mutliline comments for
* drivers/net/ should look
* like this.
*/
The comments in this file initially looked like the first example.
But since this file is part of a networking driver and thus should
be moved to drivers/net/ one day, this patch adjusts the comments
such that they are fitting to the style imposed for drivers/net/.
Signed-off-by: Christian Müller <muellerch-privat@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Felix Trommer <felix.trommer@hotmail.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190701082707.25198-1-muellerch-privat@web.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
