Commit 6bc3f397 authored by Gustavo A. R. Silva's avatar Gustavo A. R. Silva Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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USB: 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 76497732 ("cxgb3/l2t: Fix undefined behaviour")

Signed-off-by: default avatarGustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200220132017.GA29262@embeddedor


Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent 2f41c8a2
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@@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ struct usbatm_data {
	unsigned char *cell_buf;	/* holds partial rx cell */
	unsigned int buf_usage;

	struct urb *urbs[0];
	struct urb *urbs[];
};

static inline void *to_usbatm_driver_data(struct usb_interface *intf)
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@@ -199,7 +199,7 @@ struct dwc2_hcd_urb {
	u32 flags;
	u16 interval;
	struct dwc2_hcd_pipe_info pipe_info;
	struct dwc2_hcd_iso_packet_desc iso_descs[0];
	struct dwc2_hcd_iso_packet_desc iso_descs[];
};

/* Phases for control transfers */
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@@ -282,7 +282,7 @@ done:
struct dma_aligned_buffer {
	void *kmalloc_ptr;
	void *old_xfer_buffer;
	u8 data[0];
	u8 data[];
};

static void free_dma_aligned_buffer(struct urb *urb)
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@@ -255,7 +255,7 @@ struct ehci_hcd { /* one per controller */
	struct list_head	tt_list;

	/* platform-specific data -- must come last */
	unsigned long		priv[0] __aligned(sizeof(s64));
	unsigned long		priv[] __aligned(sizeof(s64));
};

/* convert between an HCD pointer and the corresponding EHCI_HCD */
@@ -460,7 +460,7 @@ struct ehci_iso_sched {
	struct list_head	td_list;
	unsigned		span;
	unsigned		first_packet;
	struct ehci_iso_packet	packet[0];
	struct ehci_iso_packet	packet[];
};

/*
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@@ -490,7 +490,7 @@ struct fotg210_iso_packet {
struct fotg210_iso_sched {
	struct list_head	td_list;
	unsigned		span;
	struct fotg210_iso_packet	packet[0];
	struct fotg210_iso_packet	packet[];
};

/*
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