From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-8.8 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,MENTIONS_GIT_HOSTING,SIGNED_OFF_BY,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DCD4C38A2A for ; Thu, 7 May 2020 20:31:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6ABEA215A4 for ; Thu, 7 May 2020 20:31:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1726495AbgEGUb1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 May 2020 16:31:27 -0400 Received: from mx2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:60876 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726093AbgEGUb0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 May 2020 16:31:26 -0400 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at test-mx.suse.de Received: from relay2.suse.de (unknown [195.135.220.254]) by mx2.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6C6FAE0A; Thu, 7 May 2020 20:31:29 +0000 (UTC) Date: Thu, 07 May 2020 22:31:26 +0200 Message-ID: From: Takashi Iwai To: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" Cc: Jaroslav Kysela , Takashi Iwai , alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] ALSA: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array In-Reply-To: <20200507192223.GA16335@embeddedor> References: <20200507192223.GA16335@embeddedor> User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.15.9 (Almost Unreal) SEMI/1.14.6 (Maruoka) FLIM/1.14.9 (=?UTF-8?B?R29qxY0=?=) APEL/10.8 Emacs/25.3 (x86_64-suse-linux-gnu) MULE/6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.6 - "Maruoka") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 07 May 2020 21:22:23 +0200, 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] > > sizeof(flexible-array-member) triggers a warning because flexible array > members have incomplete type[1]. There are some instances of code in > which the sizeof operator is being incorrectly/erroneously applied to > zero-length arrays and the result is zero. Such instances may be hiding > some bugs. So, this work (flexible-array member conversions) will also > help to get completely rid of those sorts of issues. > > 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 Thanks, applied now to for-next branch. Takashi