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digsig.h: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member

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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>
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Gustavo A. R. Silva 2020-03-23 17:03:49 -05:00
parent e76018cb60
commit 1fa0949bed
1 changed files with 2 additions and 2 deletions
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@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ struct pubkey_hdr {
uint32_t timestamp; /* key made, always 0 for now */
uint8_t algo;
uint8_t nmpi;
char mpi[0];
char mpi[];
} __packed;
struct signature_hdr {
@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ struct signature_hdr {
uint8_t hash;
uint8_t keyid[8];
uint8_t nmpi;
char mpi[0];
char mpi[];
} __packed;
#if defined(CONFIG_SIGNATURE) || defined(CONFIG_SIGNATURE_MODULE)