From b62e1ef34c18c1734593b81de481021f8fbb866e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2020 07:59:14 -0600 Subject: netfilter: 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] Lastly, fix checkpatch.pl warning WARNING: __aligned(size) is preferred over __attribute__((aligned(size))) in net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c 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 Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso Signed-off-by: Jozsef Kadlecsik --- kernel/include/linux/netfilter/ipset/ip_set.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'kernel/include/linux/netfilter/ipset') diff --git a/kernel/include/linux/netfilter/ipset/ip_set.h b/kernel/include/linux/netfilter/ipset/ip_set.h index 2cc7f46..ed9f82e 100644 --- a/kernel/include/linux/netfilter/ipset/ip_set.h +++ b/kernel/include/linux/netfilter/ipset/ip_set.h @@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ struct ip_set_counter { struct ip_set_comment_rcu { struct rcu_head rcu; - char str[0]; + char str[]; }; struct ip_set_comment { -- cgit v1.2.3