Re: [PATCH] scsi: advansys: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member

[Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>]

On 2/13/20 1:02 AM, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
> 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>
> ---
>   drivers/scsi/advansys.c | 2 +-
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/advansys.c b/drivers/scsi/advansys.c
> index a242a62caaa1..c2c7850ff7b4 100644
> --- a/drivers/scsi/advansys.c
> +++ b/drivers/scsi/advansys.c
> @@ -316,7 +316,7 @@ typedef struct asc_sg_head {
>   	ushort queue_cnt;
>   	ushort entry_to_copy;
>   	ushort res;
> -	ASC_SG_LIST sg_list[0];
> +	ASC_SG_LIST sg_list[];
>   } ASC_SG_HEAD;
>   
>   typedef struct asc_scsi_q {
> 
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>

Cheers,

Hannes
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