mirror of
https://github.com/AuxXxilium/linux_dsm_epyc7002.git
synced 2024-12-23 21:16:02 +07:00
2f202d03a5
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
inadvertenly 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
|
||
|---|---|---|
| .. | ||
| hvc | ||
| ipwireless | ||
| serdev | ||
| serial | ||
| vt | ||
| amiserial.c | ||
| cyclades.c | ||
| ehv_bytechan.c | ||
| goldfish.c | ||
| isicom.c | ||
| Kconfig | ||
| Makefile | ||
| mips_ejtag_fdc.c | ||
| moxa.c | ||
| moxa.h | ||
| mxser.c | ||
| mxser.h | ||
| n_gsm.c | ||
| n_hdlc.c | ||
| n_null.c | ||
| n_r3964.c | ||
| n_tracerouter.c | ||
| n_tracesink.c | ||
| n_tracesink.h | ||
| n_tty.c | ||
| nozomi.c | ||
| pty.c | ||
| rocket_int.h | ||
| rocket.c | ||
| rocket.h | ||
| synclink_gt.c | ||
| synclink.c | ||
| synclinkmp.c | ||
| sysrq.c | ||
| tty_audit.c | ||
| tty_baudrate.c | ||
| tty_buffer.c | ||
| tty_io.c | ||
| tty_ioctl.c | ||
| tty_jobctrl.c | ||
| tty_ldisc.c | ||
| tty_ldsem.c | ||
| tty_mutex.c | ||
| tty_port.c | ||
| ttynull.c | ||
| vcc.c | ||