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")
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| @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ struct linux_dirent64 { · 6 unmodified lines | ||
| 7 | 7 | s64 d_off; |
| 8 | 8 | unsigned short d_reclen; |
| 9 | 9 | unsigned char d_type; |
| 10 | − char d_name[0]; | |
| 10 | + char d_name[]; | |
| 11 | 11 | }; |
| 12 | 12 | |
| 13 | 13 | #endif |