linux/include/net/sctp
Gustavo A. R. Silva 2e7aaaa19c net: sctp: 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 7649773293 ("cxgb3/l2t: Fix undefined behaviour")

Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2020-02-29 21:52:19 -08:00
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auth.h sctp: add sctp_auth_init and sctp_auth_free 2019-08-19 18:27:29 -07:00
checksum.h Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2019-05-31 10:49:43 -07:00
command.h treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 104 2019-05-24 17:39:00 +02:00
constants.h sctp: add support for Primary Path Switchover 2019-11-08 14:18:32 -08:00
sctp.h sctp: add chunks to sk_backlog when the newsk sk_socket is not set 2019-10-09 16:27:04 -07:00
sm.h treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 104 2019-05-24 17:39:00 +02:00
stream_interleave.h treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 104 2019-05-24 17:39:00 +02:00
stream_sched.h treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 104 2019-05-24 17:39:00 +02:00
structs.h net: sctp: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member 2020-02-29 21:52:19 -08:00
tsnmap.h treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 104 2019-05-24 17:39:00 +02:00
ulpevent.h sctp: add SCTP_SEND_FAILED_EVENT event 2019-10-09 17:06:58 -07:00
ulpqueue.h treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 104 2019-05-24 17:39:00 +02:00