RDMA: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member
authorGustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Thu, 13 Feb 2020 01:04:25 +0000 (19:04 -0600)
committerJason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com>
Thu, 20 Feb 2020 17:33:51 +0000 (13:33 -0400)
commit5b361328ca649534d721e4eae20c96ccbe702ce7
treeaecd94c8ba19a810b66a90a2914b5834ba2832a4
parent52c5e9e7497b728b53a84cbd5873c4b707d10d55
RDMA: 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 76497732932f ("cxgb3/l2t: Fix undefined behaviour")

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200213010425.GA13068@embeddedor.com
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com> # added a few more
25 files changed:
drivers/infiniband/core/cache.c
drivers/infiniband/core/cm.c
drivers/infiniband/core/mad_priv.h
drivers/infiniband/core/multicast.c
drivers/infiniband/core/sa_query.c
drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/iw_cxgb4.h
drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/t4fw_ri_api.h
drivers/infiniband/hw/hfi1/mad.c
drivers/infiniband/hw/hfi1/mad.h
drivers/infiniband/hw/hfi1/pio.h
drivers/infiniband/hw/hfi1/sdma.c
drivers/infiniband/hw/hfi1/sdma.h
drivers/infiniband/hw/hfi1/user_exp_rcv.h
drivers/infiniband/hw/i40iw/i40iw_cm.h
drivers/infiniband/hw/mthca/mthca_memfree.c
drivers/infiniband/hw/mthca/mthca_memfree.h
drivers/infiniband/hw/usnic/usnic_uiom.h
drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_queue.h
drivers/infiniband/ulp/opa_vnic/opa_vnic_encap.h
drivers/infiniband/ulp/srp/ib_srp.h
include/rdma/ib_fmr_pool.h
include/rdma/ib_verbs.h
include/rdma/opa_vnic.h
include/rdma/rdmavt_mr.h
include/rdma/rdmavt_qp.h