diff options
author | Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com> | 2020-02-18 14:31:14 -0600 |
---|---|---|
committer | Leon Romanovsky <leonro@mellanox.com> | 2020-02-19 09:13:10 +0200 |
commit | 339ffae598ed74a0220a92c9b8d1cecb2e9a0dc8 (patch) | |
tree | 339b66bb7dd03a4bc5842f61ad861de498819719 /drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en.h | |
parent | d8fab4815a371e8013e1a769c31da1bcaf618b01 (diff) |
net/mlx5e: 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: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@mellanox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en.h')
-rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en.h | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en.h b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en.h index 220ef9f06f84..a960099cd7aa 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en.h +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en.h @@ -204,7 +204,7 @@ struct mlx5e_tx_wqe { struct mlx5e_rx_wqe_ll { struct mlx5_wqe_srq_next_seg next; - struct mlx5_wqe_data_seg data[0]; + struct mlx5_wqe_data_seg data[]; }; struct mlx5e_rx_wqe_cyc { |