[alsa-devel] [PATCH] ASoC: wm0010: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member

Charles Keepax ckeepax at opensource.cirrus.com
Wed Feb 12 10:20:30 CET 2020


On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 02:05:49PM -0600, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
> 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
> inadvertenly introduced[3] to the codebase from now on.
> 
> 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 at embeddedor.com>
> ---

Acked-by: Charles Keepax <ckeepax at opensource.cirrus.com>

Thanks,
Charles


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