From 2603c29e6c12135c1ef248ddaccf91de32567454 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2020 18:11:02 -0600 Subject: [PATCH] net: sock_reuseport: 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") Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- include/net/sock_reuseport.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/include/net/sock_reuseport.h b/include/net/sock_reuseport.h index 3ecaa15d1850..505f1e18e9bf 100644 --- a/include/net/sock_reuseport.h +++ b/include/net/sock_reuseport.h @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ struct sock_reuseport { unsigned int bind_inany:1; unsigned int has_conns:1; struct bpf_prog __rcu *prog; /* optional BPF sock selector */ - struct sock *socks[0]; /* array of sock pointers */ + struct sock *socks[]; /* array of sock pointers */ }; extern int reuseport_alloc(struct sock *sk, bool bind_inany); -- 2.25.1