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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
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arraymap.c | ||
bpf_lru_list.c | ||
bpf_lru_list.h | ||
bpf_struct_ops.c | ||
bpf_struct_ops_types.h | ||
btf.c | ||
cgroup.c | ||
core.c | ||
cpumap.c | ||
devmap.c | ||
disasm.c | ||
disasm.h | ||
dispatcher.c | ||
hashtab.c | ||
helpers.c | ||
inode.c | ||
local_storage.c | ||
lpm_trie.c | ||
Makefile | ||
map_in_map.c | ||
map_in_map.h | ||
offload.c | ||
percpu_freelist.c | ||
percpu_freelist.h | ||
queue_stack_maps.c | ||
reuseport_array.c | ||
stackmap.c | ||
syscall.c | ||
sysfs_btf.c | ||
tnum.c | ||
trampoline.c | ||
verifier.c | ||
xskmap.c |