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author | Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com> | 2020-02-21 10:00:05 -0600 |
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committer | Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com> | 2020-03-02 16:32:17 +0100 |
commit | 451787d3e2ac3a25abae91792b7154ee533b65c6 (patch) | |
tree | a02afdc4fb56590b6267d31a13a5abcfffa62e30 /include | |
parent | 9dff9a3666f15f4c76d9ddfa52744a1e86fd0ff6 (diff) | |
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video: 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: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20200221160005.GA13552@embeddedor
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r-- | include/video/mmp_disp.h | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/video/mmp_disp.h b/include/video/mmp_disp.h index 1f9bc133e230..77252cb46361 100644 --- a/include/video/mmp_disp.h +++ b/include/video/mmp_disp.h @@ -231,7 +231,7 @@ struct mmp_path { /* layers */ int overlay_num; - struct mmp_overlay overlays[0]; + struct mmp_overlay overlays[]; }; extern struct mmp_path *mmp_get_path(const char *name); |