From fe946db6ca851a0cd8c2f9c9dd96ef74e051cf2f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2020 19:14:37 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] sched: topology.h: 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 --- include/linux/sched/topology.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/include/linux/sched/topology.h b/include/linux/sched/topology.h index af9319e4cfb9..95253ad792b0 100644 --- a/include/linux/sched/topology.h +++ b/include/linux/sched/topology.h @@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ struct sched_domain { * by attaching extra space to the end of the structure, * depending on how many CPUs the kernel has booted up with) */ - unsigned long span[0]; + unsigned long span[]; }; static inline struct cpumask *sched_domain_span(struct sched_domain *sd) -- 2.20.1