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drop_monitor: 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 7649773293 ("cxgb3/l2t: Fix undefined behaviour")

Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Gustavo A. R. Silva 2020-03-02 06:02:09 -06:00 committed by David S. Miller
parent 2e83abdcb3
commit 1776658da8
1 changed files with 2 additions and 2 deletions
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@ -29,12 +29,12 @@ struct net_dm_config_entry {
struct net_dm_config_msg {
__u32 entries;
struct net_dm_config_entry options[0];
struct net_dm_config_entry options[];
};
struct net_dm_alert_msg {
__u32 entries;
struct net_dm_drop_point points[0];
struct net_dm_drop_point points[];
};
struct net_dm_user_msg {