[PATCH] Use a zero-size array in the struct devres

From: Catalin Marinas
Date: Tue Mar 06 2007 - 05:14:15 EST


Commit 9ac7849e35f705830f7b016ff272b0ff1f7ff759 adds the devres
structure containing a flexible unsigned long long array, with a
comment about the guaranteed alignment. According to the gcc manual,
flexible arrays are considered incomplete types and it is an error to
ask for their alignment. This patch makes data[] a zero-size array.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx>
---

I came across this when trying to build kmemleak as the modified
container_of macro tries to get the size of the devres.data member and
sizeof cannot be applied to incomplete types.

drivers/base/devres.c | 2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/base/devres.c b/drivers/base/devres.c
index e177c95..0d6c067 100644
--- a/drivers/base/devres.c
+++ b/drivers/base/devres.c
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ struct devres_node {
struct devres {
struct devres_node node;
/* -- 3 pointers */
- unsigned long long data[]; /* guarantee ull alignment */
+ unsigned long long data[0]; /* guarantee ull alignment */
};

struct devres_group {

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