kernel_optimize_test/fs/ocfs2/cluster
Gustavo A. R. Silva fa803cf8f3 ocfs2: cluster: 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://urldefense.com/v3/__https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Zero-Length.html__;!!GqivPVa7Brio!NzMr-YRl2zy-K3lwLVVatz7x0uD2z7-ykQag4GrGigxmfWU8TWzDy6xrkTiW3hYl00czlw$
[2] https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/21__;!!GqivPVa7Brio!NzMr-YRl2zy-K3lwLVVatz7x0uD2z7-ykQag4GrGigxmfWU8TWzDy6xrkTiW3hYHG1nAnw$
[3] commit 7649773293 ("cxgb3/l2t: Fix undefined behaviour")

Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Joseph Qi <joseph.qi@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mark@fasheh.com>
Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
Cc: Junxiao Bi <junxiao.bi@oracle.com>
Cc: Changwei Ge <gechangwei@live.cn>
Cc: Gang He <ghe@suse.com>
Cc: Jun Piao <piaojun@huawei.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200309201907.GA8005@embeddedor
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2020-04-02 09:35:25 -07:00
..
heartbeat.c ocfs2: remove unused macros 2020-04-02 09:35:25 -07:00
heartbeat.h ocfs: no need to check return value of debugfs_create functions 2019-07-12 11:05:41 -07:00
Makefile treewide: Add SPDX license identifier - Makefile/Kconfig 2019-05-21 10:50:46 +02:00
masklog.c treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 145 2019-05-30 11:25:18 -07:00
masklog.h treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 145 2019-05-30 11:25:18 -07:00
netdebug.c ocfs: no need to check return value of debugfs_create functions 2019-07-12 11:05:41 -07:00
nodemanager.c ocfs: no need to check return value of debugfs_create functions 2019-07-12 11:05:41 -07:00
nodemanager.h treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 145 2019-05-30 11:25:18 -07:00
ocfs2_heartbeat.h treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 145 2019-05-30 11:25:18 -07:00
ocfs2_nodemanager.h treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 145 2019-05-30 11:25:18 -07:00
quorum.c ocfs2: remove unneeded semicolons 2020-01-31 10:30:36 -08:00
quorum.h treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 145 2019-05-30 11:25:18 -07:00
sys.c treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 275 2019-06-05 17:30:30 +02:00
sys.h treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 275 2019-06-05 17:30:30 +02:00
tcp_internal.h treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 145 2019-05-30 11:25:18 -07:00
tcp.c ocfs2: remove useless err 2020-04-02 09:35:25 -07:00
tcp.h ocfs2: cluster: replace zero-length array with flexible-array member 2020-04-02 09:35:25 -07:00