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GustavoARSilvaJessica Yu
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kernel: module: 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] KSPP#21 [3] commit 7649773 ("cxgb3/l2t: Fix undefined behaviour") Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Jessica Yu <[email protected]>
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kernel/module.c

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struct module_sect_attrs {
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struct attribute_group grp;
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unsigned int nsections;
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struct module_sect_attr attrs[0];
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struct module_sect_attr attrs[];
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};
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static ssize_t module_sect_show(struct module_attribute *mattr,
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struct module_notes_attrs {
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struct kobject *dir;
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unsigned int notes;
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struct bin_attribute attrs[0];
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struct bin_attribute attrs[];
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};
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static ssize_t module_notes_read(struct file *filp, struct kobject *kobj,

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