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authorGustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>2020-02-17 12:54:37 -0600
committerLinus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>2020-02-21 15:36:24 +0100
commitaa0ed0d00f1d33d179cb531766176cf6b2a03934 (patch)
tree4cd33926296f4fc52175a0122bc0f1ddf793f8bc /COPYING
parentb295474360619f71cc6e99c8080ff7d9f66a3c45 (diff)
pinctrl: uniphier: 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 <gustavo@embeddedor.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200217185437.GA20901@embeddedor Acked-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
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