From db78538c75e49c09b002a2cd96a19ae0c39be771 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" Date: Thu, 7 May 2020 13:58:04 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] locking/lockdep: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array 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 76497732932f ("cxgb3/l2t: Fix undefined behaviour") Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200507185804.GA15036@embeddedor --- kernel/locking/lockdep.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/kernel/locking/lockdep.c b/kernel/locking/lockdep.c index ac10db66cc63..cfdff122905b 100644 --- a/kernel/locking/lockdep.c +++ b/kernel/locking/lockdep.c @@ -489,7 +489,7 @@ struct lock_trace { struct hlist_node hash_entry; u32 hash; u32 nr_entries; - unsigned long entries[0] __aligned(sizeof(unsigned long)); + unsigned long entries[] __aligned(sizeof(unsigned long)); }; #define LOCK_TRACE_SIZE_IN_LONGS \ (sizeof(struct lock_trace) / sizeof(unsigned long))