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 7649773293 ("cxgb3/l2t: Fix undefined behaviour")
Reviewed-by: Jeffrey Hugo <jhugo@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200508210805.GA24170@embeddedor
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@linaro.org>
Dynamically support SMCCCC and legacy conventions by detecting which
convention to use at runtime. qcom_scm_call_atomic and qcom_scm_call can
then be moved in qcom_scm.c and use underlying convention backend as
appropriate. Thus, rename qcom_scm-64,-32 to reflect that they are
backends for -smc and -legacy, respectively.
Also add support for making SCM calls earlier than when SCM driver
probes to support use cases such as qcom_scm_set_cold_boot_addr. Support
is added by lazily initializing the convention and guarding the query
with a spin lock. The limitation of these early SCM calls is that they
cannot use DMA, as in the case of >4 arguments for SMC convention and
any non-atomic call for legacy convention.
Tested-by: Brian Masney <masneyb@onstation.org> # arm32
Tested-by: Stephan Gerhold <stephan@gerhold.net>
Signed-off-by: Elliot Berman <eberman@codeaurora.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1578431066-19600-18-git-send-email-eberman@codeaurora.org
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@linaro.org>
Gustavo A. R. Silva