mm: replace zero-length array with flexible-array member

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 80c49dd975f4 ("cxgb3/l2t: Fix undefined behaviour")

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build]
Signed-off-by: chenqiwu <chenqiwu@xiaomi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Pankaj Gupta <pankaj.gupta.linux@gmail.com>
Cc: Yang Shi <yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw>
Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1586599916-15456-1-git-send-email-qiwuchen55@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
index 5bfc36320e3c1f4484041fa23131dbce717ac5a8..1744081a34d47cf81b9d399239bded9ccb200c9f 100644 (file)
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -1726,7 +1726,7 @@ struct frame_vector {
        unsigned int nr_frames; /* Number of frames stored in ptrs array */
        bool got_ref;           /* Did we pin pages by getting page ref? */
        bool is_pfns;           /* Does array contain pages or pfns? */
-       void *ptrs[0];          /* Array of pinned pfns / pages. Use
+       void *ptrs[];           /* Array of pinned pfns / pages. Use
                                 * pfns_vector_pages() or pfns_vector_pfns()
                                 * for access */
 };