Thread (2 messages) 2 messages, 2 authors, 2020-02-14

[PATCH] Input: goldfish_events - Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member

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From: Gustavo A. R. Silva <hidden>
Date: 2020-02-13 00:24:36
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Subsystem: input (keyboard, mouse, joystick, touchscreen) drivers, the rest · Maintainers: Dmitry Torokhov, Linus Torvalds

Landed in mainline as cfb8d7811f81 on 2020-02-14.

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 <redacted>
---
 drivers/input/keyboard/goldfish_events.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/input/keyboard/goldfish_events.c b/drivers/input/keyboard/goldfish_events.c
index bc8c85a52a10..57d435fc5c73 100644
--- a/drivers/input/keyboard/goldfish_events.c
+++ b/drivers/input/keyboard/goldfish_events.c
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ struct event_dev {
 	struct input_dev *input;
 	int irq;
 	void __iomem *addr;
-	char name[0];
+	char name[];
 };
 
 static irqreturn_t events_interrupt(int irq, void *dev_id)
-- 
2.23.0
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