crypto: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member
authorGustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Mon, 24 Feb 2020 16:21:00 +0000 (10:21 -0600)
committerHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Fri, 6 Mar 2020 01:28:21 +0000 (12:28 +1100)
commit5a8a076506af03f83f83d80412a7c0b06b687ee1
tree3748195e05adfc39d2516d7d077d782067a290a1
parentd282eeeb112a00b05595a034ac4cae8532a4c2fc
crypto: 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 76497732932f ("cxgb3/l2t: Fix undefined behaviour")

Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Reviewed-by: Horia Geantă <horia.geanta@nxp.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
drivers/crypto/caam/caamalg.c
drivers/crypto/caam/caamalg_qi.c
drivers/crypto/caam/caamalg_qi2.h
drivers/crypto/caam/caamhash.c
drivers/crypto/cavium/nitrox/nitrox_main.c
drivers/crypto/chelsio/chcr_core.h
drivers/crypto/mediatek/mtk-sha.c
drivers/crypto/nx/nx.h
drivers/crypto/omap-sham.c
include/crypto/if_alg.h