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| author | Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com> | 2020-02-28 07:26:15 -0600 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2020-02-28 12:08:37 -0800 |
| commit | 680a93166e80e43e3ff85be06005c5cfa492d852 (patch) | |
| tree | 853ebe2b13270e4e82a448b4d56c98e86f05704b /net/mpls | |
| parent | 95e486f5519848ca4c2f2645cbe120de5df133f3 (diff) | |
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net: mpls: 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: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/mpls')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/mpls/internal.h | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/net/mpls/internal.h b/net/mpls/internal.h index 768a302879b4..0e9aa94adc07 100644 --- a/net/mpls/internal.h +++ b/net/mpls/internal.h @@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ struct mpls_nh { /* next hop label forwarding entry */ u8 nh_via_table; u8 nh_reserved1; - u32 nh_label[0]; + u32 nh_label[]; }; /* offset of via from beginning of mpls_nh */ @@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ struct mpls_route { /* next hop label forwarding entry */ u8 rt_nh_size; u8 rt_via_offset; u8 rt_reserved1; - struct mpls_nh rt_nh[0]; + struct mpls_nh rt_nh[]; }; #define for_nexthops(rt) { \ |