linux_dsm_epyc7002/arch/s390/appldata
Gustavo A. R. Silva fa226f1d81 s390: 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")

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200221150612.GA9717@embeddedor
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Signed-off-by: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
2020-02-27 16:02:21 +01:00
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appldata_base.c proc/sysctl: add shared variables for range check 2019-07-18 17:08:07 -07:00
appldata_mem.c
appldata_net_sum.c
appldata_os.c s390: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member 2020-02-27 16:02:21 +01:00
appldata.h
Makefile s390: add a few more SPDX identifiers 2017-12-05 07:51:09 +01:00