From 6549a8c0c3d94500a9a1bb66fc237f7c01c41753 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" Date: Fri, 15 May 2020 12:29:26 -0500 Subject: perf tools: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array 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 Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Gustavo A. R. Silva Cc: Ian Rogers Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Mark Rutland Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200515172926.GA31976@embeddedor Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo --- tools/perf/util/annotate.h | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'tools/perf/util/annotate.h') diff --git a/tools/perf/util/annotate.h b/tools/perf/util/annotate.h index 2d88069d6428..0a0cd4f32175 100644 --- a/tools/perf/util/annotate.h +++ b/tools/perf/util/annotate.h @@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ struct annotation_line { u32 idx; int idx_asm; int data_nr; - struct annotation_data data[0]; + struct annotation_data data[]; }; struct disasm_line { @@ -227,7 +227,7 @@ void symbol__calc_percent(struct symbol *sym, struct evsel *evsel); struct sym_hist { u64 nr_samples; u64 period; - struct sym_hist_entry addr[0]; + struct sym_hist_entry addr[]; }; struct cyc_hist { -- cgit v1.2.3