[PATCH][next] mlxsw: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member

From: Gustavo A. R. Silva
Date: Tue Feb 18 2020 - 15:54:27 EST


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 <gustavo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/core.c | 2 +-
drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/core_acl_flex_keys.c | 2 +-
drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum1_kvdl.c | 2 +-
drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum2_kvdl.c | 2 +-
drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum_acl.c | 4 ++--
.../net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum_acl_bloom_filter.c | 2 +-
drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum_acl_tcam.c | 4 ++--
drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum_acl_tcam.h | 4 ++--
drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum_kvdl.c | 2 +-
drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum_mr.c | 2 +-
drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum_nve.c | 2 +-
11 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/core.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/core.c
index e9f791c43f20..0d630096a28c 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/core.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/core.c
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ struct mlxsw_core {
struct mlxsw_core_port *ports;
unsigned int max_ports;
bool fw_flash_in_progress;
- unsigned long driver_priv[0];
+ unsigned long driver_priv[];
/* driver_priv has to be always the last item */
};

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/core_acl_flex_keys.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/core_acl_flex_keys.c
index feb4672a5ac0..bd2207f60722 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/core_acl_flex_keys.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/core_acl_flex_keys.c
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ struct mlxsw_afk_key_info {
* is index inside "blocks"
*/
struct mlxsw_afk_element_usage elusage;
- const struct mlxsw_afk_block *blocks[0];
+ const struct mlxsw_afk_block *blocks[];
};

static bool
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum1_kvdl.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum1_kvdl.c
index 09ee0a807747..a9fff8adc75e 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum1_kvdl.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum1_kvdl.c
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ static const struct mlxsw_sp1_kvdl_part_info mlxsw_sp1_kvdl_parts_info[] = {

struct mlxsw_sp1_kvdl_part {
struct mlxsw_sp1_kvdl_part_info info;
- unsigned long usage[0]; /* Entries */
+ unsigned long usage[]; /* Entries */
};

struct mlxsw_sp1_kvdl {
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum2_kvdl.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum2_kvdl.c
index 8d14770766b4..3a73d654017f 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum2_kvdl.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum2_kvdl.c
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ struct mlxsw_sp2_kvdl_part {
unsigned int usage_bit_count;
unsigned int indexes_per_usage_bit;
unsigned int last_allocated_bit;
- unsigned long usage[0]; /* Usage bits */
+ unsigned long usage[]; /* Usage bits */
};

struct mlxsw_sp2_kvdl {
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum_acl.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum_acl.c
index 3d3cca596116..9368b93dab38 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum_acl.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum_acl.c
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ struct mlxsw_sp_acl_ruleset {
struct mlxsw_sp_acl_ruleset_ht_key ht_key;
struct rhashtable rule_ht;
unsigned int ref_count;
- unsigned long priv[0];
+ unsigned long priv[];
/* priv has to be always the last item */
};

@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ struct mlxsw_sp_acl_rule {
u64 last_used;
u64 last_packets;
u64 last_bytes;
- unsigned long priv[0];
+ unsigned long priv[];
/* priv has to be always the last item */
};

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum_acl_bloom_filter.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum_acl_bloom_filter.c
index 3a2de13fcb68..dbd3bebf11ec 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum_acl_bloom_filter.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum_acl_bloom_filter.c
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
struct mlxsw_sp_acl_bf {
struct mutex lock; /* Protects Bloom Filter updates. */
unsigned int bank_size;
- refcount_t refcnt[0];
+ refcount_t refcnt[];
};

/* Bloom filter uses a crc-16 hash over chunks of data which contain 4 key
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum_acl_tcam.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum_acl_tcam.c
index e993159e8e4c..430da69003d8 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum_acl_tcam.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum_acl_tcam.c
@@ -224,7 +224,7 @@ struct mlxsw_sp_acl_tcam_vchunk;
struct mlxsw_sp_acl_tcam_chunk {
struct mlxsw_sp_acl_tcam_vchunk *vchunk;
struct mlxsw_sp_acl_tcam_region *region;
- unsigned long priv[0];
+ unsigned long priv[];
/* priv has to be always the last item */
};

@@ -243,7 +243,7 @@ struct mlxsw_sp_acl_tcam_vchunk {
struct mlxsw_sp_acl_tcam_entry {
struct mlxsw_sp_acl_tcam_ventry *ventry;
struct mlxsw_sp_acl_tcam_chunk *chunk;
- unsigned long priv[0];
+ unsigned long priv[];
/* priv has to be always the last item */
};

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum_acl_tcam.h b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum_acl_tcam.h
index 5965913565a5..96437992b102 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum_acl_tcam.h
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum_acl_tcam.h
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ struct mlxsw_sp_acl_tcam {
struct mutex lock; /* guards vregion list */
struct list_head vregion_list;
u32 vregion_rehash_intrvl; /* ms */
- unsigned long priv[0];
+ unsigned long priv[];
/* priv has to be always the last item */
};

@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ struct mlxsw_sp_acl_tcam_region {
char tcam_region_info[MLXSW_REG_PXXX_TCAM_REGION_INFO_LEN];
struct mlxsw_afk_key_info *key_info;
struct mlxsw_sp *mlxsw_sp;
- unsigned long priv[0];
+ unsigned long priv[];
/* priv has to be always the last item */
};

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum_kvdl.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum_kvdl.c
index 1e4cdee7bcd7..715ec8ecacba 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum_kvdl.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum_kvdl.c
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@

struct mlxsw_sp_kvdl {
const struct mlxsw_sp_kvdl_ops *kvdl_ops;
- unsigned long priv[0];
+ unsigned long priv[];
/* priv has to be always the last item */
};

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum_mr.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum_mr.c
index 54275624718b..423eedebcd22 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum_mr.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum_mr.c
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ struct mlxsw_sp_mr_table {
struct list_head route_list;
struct rhashtable route_ht;
const struct mlxsw_sp_mr_table_ops *ops;
- char catchall_route_priv[0];
+ char catchall_route_priv[];
/* catchall_route_priv has to be always the last item */
};

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum_nve.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum_nve.c
index 2153bcc4b585..16a130c2f21c 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum_nve.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum_nve.c
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ struct mlxsw_sp_nve_mc_record {
struct mlxsw_sp_nve_mc_list *mc_list;
const struct mlxsw_sp_nve_mc_record_ops *ops;
u32 kvdl_index;
- struct mlxsw_sp_nve_mc_entry entries[0];
+ struct mlxsw_sp_nve_mc_entry entries[];
};

struct mlxsw_sp_nve_mc_list {
--
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