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SubjectRe: [PATCH][next] udf: udf_sb.h: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member
On Mon 09-03-20 15:27:15, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
> 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>

Thanks. I've added the patch to my tree.

> ---
> fs/udf/udf_sb.h | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/udf/udf_sb.h b/fs/udf/udf_sb.h
> index 3d83be54c474..65280ae009e0 100644
> --- a/fs/udf/udf_sb.h
> +++ b/fs/udf/udf_sb.h
> @@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ struct udf_virtual_data {
> struct udf_bitmap {
> __u32 s_extPosition;
> int s_nr_groups;
> - struct buffer_head *s_block_bitmap[0];
> + struct buffer_head *s_block_bitmap[];
> };
>
> struct udf_part_map {
> --
> 2.25.0
>
--
Jan Kara <jack@suse.com>
SUSE Labs, CR

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