bpf: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member
authorGustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Thu, 27 Feb 2020 00:17:44 +0000 (18:17 -0600)
committerDaniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Fri, 28 Feb 2020 00:21:02 +0000 (01:21 +0100)
commitd7f10df86202273155a9d8f8553bc2ad28e0dd46
treee253c06e6c409afbff1f057a5376fc77ac1dc01f
parent4bc988464bb193d67c93ddb2fcd1de127d815b6c
bpf: 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>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Acked-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200227001744.GA3317@embeddedor
include/linux/bpf-cgroup.h
include/linux/bpf.h
include/uapi/linux/bpf.h
kernel/bpf/bpf_struct_ops.c
kernel/bpf/hashtab.c
kernel/bpf/lpm_trie.c