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xen: 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]> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200226212612.GA4663@embeddedor Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <[email protected]>
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drivers/xen/xen-pciback/pciback.h

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unsigned int ack_intr:1; /* .. and ACK-ing */
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unsigned long handled;
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unsigned int irq; /* Saved in case device transitions to MSI/MSI-X */
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char irq_name[0]; /* xen-pcibk[000:04:00.0] */
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char irq_name[]; /* xen-pcibk[000:04:00.0] */
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};
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/* Used by XenBus and xen_pcibk_ops.c */

include/xen/interface/io/tpmif.h

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uint8_t pad;
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uint8_t nr_extra_pages; /* extra pages for long packets; may be zero */
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uint32_t extra_pages[0]; /* grant IDs; length in nr_extra_pages */
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uint32_t extra_pages[]; /* grant IDs; length in nr_extra_pages */
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};
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#endif

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