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]
sizeof(flexible-array-member) triggers a warning because flexible array
members have incomplete type[1]. There are some instances of code in
which the sizeof operator is being incorrectly/erroneously applied to
zero-length arrays and the result is zero. Such instances may be hiding
some bugs. So, this work (flexible-array member conversions) will also
help to get completely rid of those sorts of issues.
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 <gustavoars@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200507185318.GA14393@embeddedor
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Function pointer "hd->driver->cport_quiesce" is already checked
at the beginning of gb_connection_hd_cport_quiesce(). Thus, the
second check can be removed.
Signed-off-by: Denis Efremov <efremov@linux.com>
Acked-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190925213656.8950-1-efremov@linux.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
The Greybus core code has been stable for a long time, and has been
shipping for many years in millions of phones. With the advent of a
recent Google Summer of Code project, and a number of new devices in the
works from various companies, it is time to get the core greybus code
out of staging as it really is going to be with us for a while.
Cc: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: greybus-dev@lists.linaro.org
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Alex Elder <elder@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190825055429.18547-9-gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
