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 gustavo@embeddedor.com --- net/batman-adv/distributed-arp-table.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/net/batman-adv/distributed-arp-table.c b/net/batman-adv/distributed-arp-table.c index 3d21dd83f8cc..b85da4b7a77b 100644 --- a/net/batman-adv/distributed-arp-table.c +++ b/net/batman-adv/distributed-arp-table.c @@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ struct batadv_dhcp_packet { __u8 sname[64]; __u8 file[128]; __be32 magic; - __u8 options[0]; + __u8 options[]; };
#define BATADV_DHCP_YIADDR_LEN sizeof(((struct batadv_dhcp_packet *)0)->yiaddr)