Thread (3 messages) 3 messages, 3 authors, 2020-03-23

Re: [PATCH][next] brcmfmac: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member

From: Arend Van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com>
Date: 2020-03-06 10:26:44
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On 2/25/2020 3:08 AM, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
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:
[...]
"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")
Acked-by: Arend van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <redacted>
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  drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/firmware.h | 2 +-
  drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/fweh.c     | 2 +-
  2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
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