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<title>linux-toradex.git/include/linux, branch v5.7-rc2</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>Merge tag 'irq-urgent-2020-04-19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2020-04-19T18:23:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-04-19T18:23:33+00:00</published>
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Pull irq fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
 "A set of fixes/updates for the interrupt subsystem:

   - Remove setup_irq() and remove_irq(). All users have been converted
     so remove them before new users surface.

   - A set of bugfixes for various interrupt chip drivers

   - Add a few missing static attributes to address sparse warnings"

* tag 'irq-urgent-2020-04-19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  irqchip/irq-bcm7038-l1: Make bcm7038_l1_of_init() static
  irqchip/irq-mvebu-icu: Make legacy_bindings static
  irqchip/meson-gpio: Fix HARDIRQ-safe -&gt; HARDIRQ-unsafe lock order
  irqchip/sifive-plic: Fix maximum priority threshold value
  irqchip/ti-sci-inta: Fix processing of masked irqs
  irqchip/mbigen: Free msi_desc on device teardown
  irqchip/gic-v4.1: Update effective affinity of virtual SGIs
  irqchip/gic-v4.1: Add support for VPENDBASER's Dirty+Valid signaling
  genirq: Remove setup_irq() and remove_irq()
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<pre>
Pull irq fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
 "A set of fixes/updates for the interrupt subsystem:

   - Remove setup_irq() and remove_irq(). All users have been converted
     so remove them before new users surface.

   - A set of bugfixes for various interrupt chip drivers

   - Add a few missing static attributes to address sparse warnings"

* tag 'irq-urgent-2020-04-19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  irqchip/irq-bcm7038-l1: Make bcm7038_l1_of_init() static
  irqchip/irq-mvebu-icu: Make legacy_bindings static
  irqchip/meson-gpio: Fix HARDIRQ-safe -&gt; HARDIRQ-unsafe lock order
  irqchip/sifive-plic: Fix maximum priority threshold value
  irqchip/ti-sci-inta: Fix processing of masked irqs
  irqchip/mbigen: Free msi_desc on device teardown
  irqchip/gic-v4.1: Update effective affinity of virtual SGIs
  irqchip/gic-v4.1: Add support for VPENDBASER's Dirty+Valid signaling
  genirq: Remove setup_irq() and remove_irq()
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'ext4_for_linus_stable' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4</title>
<updated>2020-04-19T18:05:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-04-19T18:05:15+00:00</published>
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Pull ext4 fixes from Ted Ts'o:
 "Miscellaneous bug fixes and cleanups for ext4, including a fix for
  generic/388 in data=journal mode, removing some BUG_ON's, and cleaning
  up some compiler warnings"

* tag 'ext4_for_linus_stable' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4:
  ext4: convert BUG_ON's to WARN_ON's in mballoc.c
  ext4: increase wait time needed before reuse of deleted inode numbers
  ext4: remove set but not used variable 'es' in ext4_jbd2.c
  ext4: remove set but not used variable 'es'
  ext4: do not zeroout extents beyond i_disksize
  ext4: fix return-value types in several function comments
  ext4: use non-movable memory for superblock readahead
  ext4: use matching invalidatepage in ext4_writepage
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<pre>
Pull ext4 fixes from Ted Ts'o:
 "Miscellaneous bug fixes and cleanups for ext4, including a fix for
  generic/388 in data=journal mode, removing some BUG_ON's, and cleaning
  up some compiler warnings"

* tag 'ext4_for_linus_stable' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4:
  ext4: convert BUG_ON's to WARN_ON's in mballoc.c
  ext4: increase wait time needed before reuse of deleted inode numbers
  ext4: remove set but not used variable 'es' in ext4_jbd2.c
  ext4: remove set but not used variable 'es'
  ext4: do not zeroout extents beyond i_disksize
  ext4: fix return-value types in several function comments
  ext4: use non-movable memory for superblock readahead
  ext4: use matching invalidatepage in ext4_writepage
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'flexible-array-member-5.7-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gustavoars/linux</title>
<updated>2020-04-19T17:34:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-04-19T17:34:30+00:00</published>
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Pull flexible-array member conversion from Gustavo Silva:
 "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
  convertions) will also help to get completely rid of those sorts of
  issues.

  Notice that all of these patches have been baking in linux-next for
  quite a while now and, 238 more of these patches have already been
  merged into 5.7-rc1.

  There are a couple hundred more of these issues waiting to be
  addressed in the whole codebase"

[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")

* tag 'flexible-array-member-5.7-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gustavoars/linux: (28 commits)
  xattr.h: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member
  uapi: linux: fiemap.h: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member
  uapi: linux: dlm_device.h: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member
  tpm_eventlog.h: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member
  ti_wilink_st.h: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member
  swap.h: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member
  skbuff.h: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member
  sched: topology.h: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member
  rslib.h: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member
  rio.h: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member
  posix_acl.h: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member
  platform_data: wilco-ec.h: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member
  memcontrol.h: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member
  list_lru.h: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member
  lib: cpu_rmap: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member
  irq.h: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member
  ihex.h: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member
  igmp.h: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member
  genalloc.h: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member
  ethtool.h: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member
  ...
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<pre>
Pull flexible-array member conversion from Gustavo Silva:
 "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
  convertions) will also help to get completely rid of those sorts of
  issues.

  Notice that all of these patches have been baking in linux-next for
  quite a while now and, 238 more of these patches have already been
  merged into 5.7-rc1.

  There are a couple hundred more of these issues waiting to be
  addressed in the whole codebase"

[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")

* tag 'flexible-array-member-5.7-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gustavoars/linux: (28 commits)
  xattr.h: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member
  uapi: linux: fiemap.h: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member
  uapi: linux: dlm_device.h: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member
  tpm_eventlog.h: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member
  ti_wilink_st.h: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member
  swap.h: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member
  skbuff.h: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member
  sched: topology.h: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member
  rslib.h: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member
  rio.h: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member
  posix_acl.h: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member
  platform_data: wilco-ec.h: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member
  memcontrol.h: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member
  list_lru.h: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member
  lib: cpu_rmap: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member
  irq.h: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member
  ihex.h: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member
  igmp.h: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member
  genalloc.h: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member
  ethtool.h: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member
  ...
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>xattr.h: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member</title>
<updated>2020-04-18T20:44:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Gustavo A. R. Silva</name>
<email>gustavo@embeddedor.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-03-24T00:41:14+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=43951585e1308b322c8ee31a4aafd08213f5c5d7'/>
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<content type='text'>
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 &lt;gustavo@embeddedor.com&gt;
</content>
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
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 &lt;gustavo@embeddedor.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>tpm_eventlog.h: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member</title>
<updated>2020-04-18T20:44:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Gustavo A. R. Silva</name>
<email>gustavo@embeddedor.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-03-24T00:38:18+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=06ccf63da5d8e90e4dff8b741972a9b279b5bf4c'/>
<id>06ccf63da5d8e90e4dff8b741972a9b279b5bf4c</id>
<content type='text'>
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 &lt;gustavo@embeddedor.com&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
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 &lt;gustavo@embeddedor.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ti_wilink_st.h: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member</title>
<updated>2020-04-18T20:44:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Gustavo A. R. Silva</name>
<email>gustavo@embeddedor.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-03-24T00:25:06+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=4ea19ecf322c2f98ef87fc980b3851625b082ac2'/>
<id>4ea19ecf322c2f98ef87fc980b3851625b082ac2</id>
<content type='text'>
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 &lt;gustavo@embeddedor.com&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
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 &lt;gustavo@embeddedor.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>swap.h: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member</title>
<updated>2020-04-18T20:44:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Gustavo A. R. Silva</name>
<email>gustavo@embeddedor.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-03-24T00:23:10+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=16c3380f8c2e7ed3d75a30776a89aabf5512027a'/>
<id>16c3380f8c2e7ed3d75a30776a89aabf5512027a</id>
<content type='text'>
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 &lt;gustavo@embeddedor.com&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
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 &lt;gustavo@embeddedor.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>skbuff.h: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member</title>
<updated>2020-04-18T20:44:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Gustavo A. R. Silva</name>
<email>gustavo@embeddedor.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-03-24T00:22:24+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=5c91aa1df00ec4fa283c35e92736392df3137d81'/>
<id>5c91aa1df00ec4fa283c35e92736392df3137d81</id>
<content type='text'>
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 &lt;gustavo@embeddedor.com&gt;
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<pre>
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 &lt;gustavo@embeddedor.com&gt;
</pre>
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<entry>
<title>sched: topology.h: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member</title>
<updated>2020-04-18T20:44:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Gustavo A. R. Silva</name>
<email>gustavo@embeddedor.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-03-24T00:14:37+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=fe946db6ca851a0cd8c2f9c9dd96ef74e051cf2f'/>
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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 76497732932f ("cxgb3/l2t: Fix undefined behaviour")

Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva &lt;gustavo@embeddedor.com&gt;
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<pre>
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 &lt;gustavo@embeddedor.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>rslib.h: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member</title>
<updated>2020-04-18T20:44:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Gustavo A. R. Silva</name>
<email>gustavo@embeddedor.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-03-24T00:13:20+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=9dd8bb5f8c449e87cc0084a118673c6d4182bab2'/>
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<content type='text'>
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 &lt;gustavo@embeddedor.com&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
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 &lt;gustavo@embeddedor.com&gt;
</pre>
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