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<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>Merge tag 'ptrace-cleanups-for-v5.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace</title>
<updated>2022-03-29T00:29:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-03-29T00:29:53+00:00</published>
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Pull ptrace cleanups from Eric Biederman:
 "This set of changes removes tracehook.h, moves modification of all of
  the ptrace fields inside of siglock to remove races, adds a missing
  permission check to ptrace.c

  The removal of tracehook.h is quite significant as it has been a major
  source of confusion in recent years. Much of that confusion was around
  task_work and TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL (which I have now decoupled making the
  semantics clearer).

  For people who don't know tracehook.h is a vestiage of an attempt to
  implement uprobes like functionality that was never fully merged, and
  was later superseeded by uprobes when uprobes was merged. For many
  years now we have been removing what tracehook functionaly a little
  bit at a time. To the point where anything left in tracehook.h was
  some weird strange thing that was difficult to understand"

* tag 'ptrace-cleanups-for-v5.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace:
  ptrace: Remove duplicated include in ptrace.c
  ptrace: Check PTRACE_O_SUSPEND_SECCOMP permission on PTRACE_SEIZE
  ptrace: Return the signal to continue with from ptrace_stop
  ptrace: Move setting/clearing ptrace_message into ptrace_stop
  tracehook: Remove tracehook.h
  resume_user_mode: Move to resume_user_mode.h
  resume_user_mode: Remove #ifdef TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME in set_notify_resume
  signal: Move set_notify_signal and clear_notify_signal into sched/signal.h
  task_work: Decouple TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL and task_work
  task_work: Call tracehook_notify_signal from get_signal on all architectures
  task_work: Introduce task_work_pending
  task_work: Remove unnecessary include from posix_timers.h
  ptrace: Remove tracehook_signal_handler
  ptrace: Remove arch_syscall_{enter,exit}_tracehook
  ptrace: Create ptrace_report_syscall_{entry,exit} in ptrace.h
  ptrace/arm: Rename tracehook_report_syscall report_syscall
  ptrace: Move ptrace_report_syscall into ptrace.h
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<pre>
Pull ptrace cleanups from Eric Biederman:
 "This set of changes removes tracehook.h, moves modification of all of
  the ptrace fields inside of siglock to remove races, adds a missing
  permission check to ptrace.c

  The removal of tracehook.h is quite significant as it has been a major
  source of confusion in recent years. Much of that confusion was around
  task_work and TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL (which I have now decoupled making the
  semantics clearer).

  For people who don't know tracehook.h is a vestiage of an attempt to
  implement uprobes like functionality that was never fully merged, and
  was later superseeded by uprobes when uprobes was merged. For many
  years now we have been removing what tracehook functionaly a little
  bit at a time. To the point where anything left in tracehook.h was
  some weird strange thing that was difficult to understand"

* tag 'ptrace-cleanups-for-v5.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace:
  ptrace: Remove duplicated include in ptrace.c
  ptrace: Check PTRACE_O_SUSPEND_SECCOMP permission on PTRACE_SEIZE
  ptrace: Return the signal to continue with from ptrace_stop
  ptrace: Move setting/clearing ptrace_message into ptrace_stop
  tracehook: Remove tracehook.h
  resume_user_mode: Move to resume_user_mode.h
  resume_user_mode: Remove #ifdef TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME in set_notify_resume
  signal: Move set_notify_signal and clear_notify_signal into sched/signal.h
  task_work: Decouple TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL and task_work
  task_work: Call tracehook_notify_signal from get_signal on all architectures
  task_work: Introduce task_work_pending
  task_work: Remove unnecessary include from posix_timers.h
  ptrace: Remove tracehook_signal_handler
  ptrace: Remove arch_syscall_{enter,exit}_tracehook
  ptrace: Create ptrace_report_syscall_{entry,exit} in ptrace.h
  ptrace/arm: Rename tracehook_report_syscall report_syscall
  ptrace: Move ptrace_report_syscall into ptrace.h
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>resume_user_mode: Move to resume_user_mode.h</title>
<updated>2022-03-10T22:51:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric W. Biederman</name>
<email>ebiederm@xmission.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-02-09T18:20:45+00:00</published>
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Move set_notify_resume and tracehook_notify_resume into resume_user_mode.h.
While doing that rename tracehook_notify_resume to resume_user_mode_work.

Update all of the places that included tracehook.h for these functions to
include resume_user_mode.h instead.

Update all of the callers of tracehook_notify_resume to call
resume_user_mode_work.

Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220309162454.123006-12-ebiederm@xmission.com
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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<pre>
Move set_notify_resume and tracehook_notify_resume into resume_user_mode.h.
While doing that rename tracehook_notify_resume to resume_user_mode_work.

Update all of the places that included tracehook.h for these functions to
include resume_user_mode.h instead.

Update all of the callers of tracehook_notify_resume to call
resume_user_mode_work.

Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220309162454.123006-12-ebiederm@xmission.com
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>MIPS: remove asm/war.h</title>
<updated>2022-02-22T08:35:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Bogendoerfer</name>
<email>tsbogend@alpha.franken.de</email>
</author>
<published>2022-02-18T10:04:39+00:00</published>
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The major part for workaround handling has already moved to config
options. This change replaces the remaining defines by already
available config options and gets rid of war.h

Signed-off-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer &lt;tsbogend@alpha.franken.de&gt;
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The major part for workaround handling has already moved to config
options. This change replaces the remaining defines by already
available config options and gets rid of war.h

Signed-off-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer &lt;tsbogend@alpha.franken.de&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>MIPS: signal: Return immediately if call fails</title>
<updated>2022-01-02T13:16:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tiezhu Yang</name>
<email>yangtiezhu@loongson.cn</email>
</author>
<published>2021-12-20T04:27:39+00:00</published>
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When debug sigaltstack(), copy_siginfo_to_user() fails first in
setup_rt_frame() if the alternate signal stack is too small, so
it should return immediately if call fails, no need to call the
following functions.

Signed-off-by: Tiezhu Yang &lt;yangtiezhu@loongson.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer &lt;tsbogend@alpha.franken.de&gt;
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When debug sigaltstack(), copy_siginfo_to_user() fails first in
setup_rt_frame() if the alternate signal stack is too small, so
it should return immediately if call fails, no need to call the
following functions.

Signed-off-by: Tiezhu Yang &lt;yangtiezhu@loongson.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer &lt;tsbogend@alpha.franken.de&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>MIPS: signal: Protect against sigaltstack wraparound</title>
<updated>2022-01-02T13:16:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tiezhu Yang</name>
<email>yangtiezhu@loongson.cn</email>
</author>
<published>2021-12-20T04:27:38+00:00</published>
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If a process uses alternative signal stack by using sigaltstack(),
then that stack overflows and stack wraparound occurs.

Simple Explanation:
The accurate sp order is A,B,C,D,...
But now the sp points to A,B,C and A,B,C again.

This problem can reproduce by the following code:

  $ cat test_sigaltstack.c
  #include &lt;stdio.h&gt;
  #include &lt;signal.h&gt;
  #include &lt;stdlib.h&gt;
  #include &lt;string.h&gt;

  volatile int counter = 0;

  void print_sp()
  {
      unsigned long sp;

      __asm__ __volatile__("move %0, $sp" : "=r" (sp));
      printf("sp = 0x%08lx\n", sp);
  }

  void segv_handler()
  {
      int *c = NULL;

      print_sp();
      counter++;
      printf("%d\n", counter);

      if (counter == 23)
          abort();

      *c = 1;	// SEGV
  }

  int main()
  {
      int *c = NULL;
      char *s = malloc(SIGSTKSZ);
      stack_t stack;
      struct sigaction action;

      memset(s, 0, SIGSTKSZ);
      stack.ss_sp = s;
      stack.ss_flags = 0;
      stack.ss_size = SIGSTKSZ;
      if (sigaltstack(&amp;stack, NULL)) {
          printf("Failed to use sigaltstack!\n");
          return -1;
      }

      memset(&amp;action, 0, sizeof(action));
      action.sa_handler = segv_handler;
      action.sa_flags = SA_ONSTACK | SA_NODEFER;
      sigemptyset(&amp;action.sa_mask);
      sigaction(SIGSEGV, &amp;action, NULL);

      *c = 0;	//SEGV

      if (!s)
          free(s);

      return 0;
  }
  $ gcc test_sigaltstack.c -o test_sigaltstack
  $ ./test_sigaltstack
  sp = 0x120015c80
  1
  sp = 0x120015900
  2
  sp = 0x120015580
  3
  sp = 0x120015200
  4
  sp = 0x120014e80
  5
  sp = 0x120014b00
  6
  sp = 0x120014780
  7
  sp = 0x120014400
  8
  sp = 0x120014080
  9
  sp = 0x120013d00
  10
  sp = 0x120015c80
  11               # wraparound occurs! the 11nd output is same as 1st.
  sp = 0x120015900
  12
  sp = 0x120015580
  13
  sp = 0x120015200
  14
  sp = 0x120014e80
  15
  sp = 0x120014b00
  16
  sp = 0x120014780
  17
  sp = 0x120014400
  18
  sp = 0x120014080
  19
  sp = 0x120013d00
  20
  sp = 0x120015c80
  21                # wraparound occurs! the 21nd output is same as 1st.
  sp = 0x120015900
  22
  sp = 0x120015580
  23
  Aborted

With this patch:

  $ ./test_sigaltstack
  sp = 0x120015c80
  1
  sp = 0x120015900
  2
  sp = 0x120015580
  3
  sp = 0x120015200
  4
  sp = 0x120014e80
  5
  sp = 0x120014b00
  6
  sp = 0x120014780
  7
  sp = 0x120014400
  8
  sp = 0x120014080
  9
  Segmentation fault

If we are on the alternate signal stack and would overflow it, don't.
Return an always-bogus address instead so we will die with SIGSEGV.

This patch is similar with commit 83bd01024b1f ("x86: protect against
sigaltstack wraparound").

Signed-off-by: Tiezhu Yang &lt;yangtiezhu@loongson.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer &lt;tsbogend@alpha.franken.de&gt;
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If a process uses alternative signal stack by using sigaltstack(),
then that stack overflows and stack wraparound occurs.

Simple Explanation:
The accurate sp order is A,B,C,D,...
But now the sp points to A,B,C and A,B,C again.

This problem can reproduce by the following code:

  $ cat test_sigaltstack.c
  #include &lt;stdio.h&gt;
  #include &lt;signal.h&gt;
  #include &lt;stdlib.h&gt;
  #include &lt;string.h&gt;

  volatile int counter = 0;

  void print_sp()
  {
      unsigned long sp;

      __asm__ __volatile__("move %0, $sp" : "=r" (sp));
      printf("sp = 0x%08lx\n", sp);
  }

  void segv_handler()
  {
      int *c = NULL;

      print_sp();
      counter++;
      printf("%d\n", counter);

      if (counter == 23)
          abort();

      *c = 1;	// SEGV
  }

  int main()
  {
      int *c = NULL;
      char *s = malloc(SIGSTKSZ);
      stack_t stack;
      struct sigaction action;

      memset(s, 0, SIGSTKSZ);
      stack.ss_sp = s;
      stack.ss_flags = 0;
      stack.ss_size = SIGSTKSZ;
      if (sigaltstack(&amp;stack, NULL)) {
          printf("Failed to use sigaltstack!\n");
          return -1;
      }

      memset(&amp;action, 0, sizeof(action));
      action.sa_handler = segv_handler;
      action.sa_flags = SA_ONSTACK | SA_NODEFER;
      sigemptyset(&amp;action.sa_mask);
      sigaction(SIGSEGV, &amp;action, NULL);

      *c = 0;	//SEGV

      if (!s)
          free(s);

      return 0;
  }
  $ gcc test_sigaltstack.c -o test_sigaltstack
  $ ./test_sigaltstack
  sp = 0x120015c80
  1
  sp = 0x120015900
  2
  sp = 0x120015580
  3
  sp = 0x120015200
  4
  sp = 0x120014e80
  5
  sp = 0x120014b00
  6
  sp = 0x120014780
  7
  sp = 0x120014400
  8
  sp = 0x120014080
  9
  sp = 0x120013d00
  10
  sp = 0x120015c80
  11               # wraparound occurs! the 11nd output is same as 1st.
  sp = 0x120015900
  12
  sp = 0x120015580
  13
  sp = 0x120015200
  14
  sp = 0x120014e80
  15
  sp = 0x120014b00
  16
  sp = 0x120014780
  17
  sp = 0x120014400
  18
  sp = 0x120014080
  19
  sp = 0x120013d00
  20
  sp = 0x120015c80
  21                # wraparound occurs! the 21nd output is same as 1st.
  sp = 0x120015900
  22
  sp = 0x120015580
  23
  Aborted

With this patch:

  $ ./test_sigaltstack
  sp = 0x120015c80
  1
  sp = 0x120015900
  2
  sp = 0x120015580
  3
  sp = 0x120015200
  4
  sp = 0x120014e80
  5
  sp = 0x120014b00
  6
  sp = 0x120014780
  7
  sp = 0x120014400
  8
  sp = 0x120014080
  9
  Segmentation fault

If we are on the alternate signal stack and would overflow it, don't.
Return an always-bogus address instead so we will die with SIGSEGV.

This patch is similar with commit 83bd01024b1f ("x86: protect against
sigaltstack wraparound").

Signed-off-by: Tiezhu Yang &lt;yangtiezhu@loongson.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer &lt;tsbogend@alpha.franken.de&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>entry: rseq: Call rseq_handle_notify_resume() in tracehook_notify_resume()</title>
<updated>2021-09-22T14:24:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sean Christopherson</name>
<email>seanjc@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-09-01T20:30:27+00:00</published>
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Invoke rseq_handle_notify_resume() from tracehook_notify_resume() now
that the two function are always called back-to-back by architectures
that have rseq.  The rseq helper is stubbed out for architectures that
don't support rseq, i.e. this is a nop across the board.

Note, tracehook_notify_resume() is horribly named and arguably does not
belong in tracehook.h as literally every line of code in it has nothing
to do with tracing.  But, that's been true since commit a42c6ded827d
("move key_repace_session_keyring() into tracehook_notify_resume()")
first usurped tracehook_notify_resume() back in 2012.  Punt cleaning that
mess up to future patches.

No functional change intended.

Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson &lt;seanjc@google.com&gt;
Message-Id: &lt;20210901203030.1292304-3-seanjc@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
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Invoke rseq_handle_notify_resume() from tracehook_notify_resume() now
that the two function are always called back-to-back by architectures
that have rseq.  The rseq helper is stubbed out for architectures that
don't support rseq, i.e. this is a nop across the board.

Note, tracehook_notify_resume() is horribly named and arguably does not
belong in tracehook.h as literally every line of code in it has nothing
to do with tracing.  But, that's been true since commit a42c6ded827d
("move key_repace_session_keyring() into tracehook_notify_resume()")
first usurped tracehook_notify_resume() back in 2012.  Punt cleaning that
mess up to future patches.

No functional change intended.

Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson &lt;seanjc@google.com&gt;
Message-Id: &lt;20210901203030.1292304-3-seanjc@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mips: add support for TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL</title>
<updated>2020-11-09T15:16:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jens Axboe</name>
<email>axboe@kernel.dk</email>
</author>
<published>2020-10-09T21:16:02+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
Wire up TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL handling for mips.

Cc: linux-mips@vger.kernel.org
Acked-By: Thomas Bogendoerfer &lt;tsbogend@alpha.franken.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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<pre>
Wire up TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL handling for mips.

Cc: linux-mips@vger.kernel.org
Acked-By: Thomas Bogendoerfer &lt;tsbogend@alpha.franken.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracehook: clear TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME in tracehook_notify_resume()</title>
<updated>2020-10-17T21:04:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jens Axboe</name>
<email>axboe@kernel.dk</email>
</author>
<published>2020-10-03T16:49:22+00:00</published>
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All the callers currently do this, clean it up and move the clearing
into tracehook_notify_resume() instead.

Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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<pre>
All the callers currently do this, clean it up and move the clearing
into tracehook_notify_resume() instead.

Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>MIPS: Convert ICACHE_REFILLS_WORKAROUND_WAR into a config option</title>
<updated>2020-09-07T20:24:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Bogendoerfer</name>
<email>tsbogend@alpha.franken.de</email>
</author>
<published>2020-08-24T16:32:48+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
Use a new config option to enable I-cache refill workaround and remove
define from different war.h files.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer &lt;tsbogend@alpha.franken.de&gt;
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Use a new config option to enable I-cache refill workaround and remove
define from different war.h files.

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<title>MIPS: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array</title>
<updated>2020-05-08T10:01:02+00:00</updated>
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<name>Gustavo A. R. Silva</name>
<email>gustavoars@kernel.org</email>
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<published>2020-05-07T19:00:52+00:00</published>
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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]

sizeof(flexible-array-member) triggers a warning because flexible array
members have incomplete type[1]. There are some instances of code in
which the sizeof operator is being incorrectly/erroneously applied to
zero-length arrays and the result is zero. Such instances may be hiding
some bugs. So, this work (flexible-array member conversions) will also
help to get completely rid of those sorts of issues.

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 &lt;gustavoars@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer &lt;tsbogend@alpha.franken.de&gt;
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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]

sizeof(flexible-array-member) triggers a warning because flexible array
members have incomplete type[1]. There are some instances of code in
which the sizeof operator is being incorrectly/erroneously applied to
zero-length arrays and the result is zero. Such instances may be hiding
some bugs. So, this work (flexible-array member conversions) will also
help to get completely rid of those sorts of issues.

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 &lt;gustavoars@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer &lt;tsbogend@alpha.franken.de&gt;
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