Re: [PATCH] PCI: hv: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member

[Wei Liu]

On Wed, Mar 04, 2020 at 06:06:35PM +0000, Lorenzo Pieralisi wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 04, 2020 at 05:55:09PM +0000, Wei Liu wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 03:43:40AM +0000, Dexuan Cui wrote:
> > > > From: linux-hyperv-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > > <linux-hyperv-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Gustavo A. R. Silva
> > > > Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2020 4:51 PM
> > > >  ...
> > > > 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.
> > > 
> > > Looks good to me. Thanks, Gustavo!
> > >  
> > > Reviewed-by: Dexuan Cui <decui@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > 
> > 
> > Lorenzo, will you be picking up this patch? It seems to me you've been
> > handling patches to pci-hyperv.c. This patch is not yet in pci/hv branch
> > in your repository.
> > 
> > Let me know what you think.
> 
> I shall pick it up, I checked patchwork and it was erroneously
> assigned to Bjorn, that's why I have not taken it yet.
> 
> Fixed now, apologies, I will merge it shortly.

Thanks for picking it up.

Wei.

> 
> Lorenzo