From b90feaff2a2cbf339069adec4bfd6091cfb44b50 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2020 14:58:44 -0600 Subject: net: sched: 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 Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- net/sched/sch_netem.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'net/sched/sch_netem.c') diff --git a/net/sched/sch_netem.c b/net/sched/sch_netem.c index 42e557d48e4e..84f82771cdf5 100644 --- a/net/sched/sch_netem.c +++ b/net/sched/sch_netem.c @@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ struct disttable { u32 size; - s16 table[0]; + s16 table[]; }; struct netem_sched_data { -- cgit v1.2.3-58-ga151