From 385bbf7b119a4feb6d6bcf3586f1bb1dd9c5b0a0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" Date: Thu, 7 May 2020 13:50:57 -0500 Subject: bpf, libbpf: 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 Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann Acked-by: Yonghong Song Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200507185057.GA13981@embeddedor --- tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c | 2 +- tools/lib/bpf/libbpf_internal.h | 2 +- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'tools/lib') diff --git a/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c b/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c index 6c2f46908f4d..3da66540b54b 100644 --- a/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c +++ b/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c @@ -8352,7 +8352,7 @@ error: struct perf_sample_raw { struct perf_event_header header; uint32_t size; - char data[0]; + char data[]; }; struct perf_sample_lost { diff --git a/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf_internal.h b/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf_internal.h index 8c3afbd97747..50d70e90d5f1 100644 --- a/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf_internal.h +++ b/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf_internal.h @@ -153,7 +153,7 @@ struct btf_ext_info_sec { __u32 sec_name_off; __u32 num_info; /* Followed by num_info * record_size number of bytes */ - __u8 data[0]; + __u8 data[]; }; /* The minimum bpf_func_info checked by the loader */ -- cgit v1.2.3