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author | 2020-05-07 13:52:45 -0500 | |
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committer | 2020-05-08 09:41:30 +0200 | |
commit | 89ebe49aaa2f60a19db53b4c03fd25253ae7f4ec (patch) | |
tree | 9f01d643e42ce5c7133b39d1b6ea51fe5a9026f6 /sound/firewire | |
parent | ALSA: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array (diff) | |
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ALSA: fireworks: 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 <gustavoars@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Takashi Sakamoto <o-takashi@sakamocchi.jp>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200507185245.GA14270@embeddedor
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'sound/firewire')
-rw-r--r-- | sound/firewire/fireworks/fireworks.h | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/sound/firewire/fireworks/fireworks.h b/sound/firewire/fireworks/fireworks.h index dda797209a27..654e28a6669f 100644 --- a/sound/firewire/fireworks/fireworks.h +++ b/sound/firewire/fireworks/fireworks.h @@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ struct snd_efw_phys_meters { u32 in_meters; u32 reserved4; u32 reserved5; - u32 values[0]; + u32 values[]; } __packed; enum snd_efw_clock_source { SND_EFW_CLOCK_SOURCE_INTERNAL = 0, |