There is a regular need in the kernel to provide a way to declare
having a dynamically sized set of trailing elements in a structure.
Kernel code should always use “flexible array members”[1] for these
cases. The older style of one-element or zero-length arrays should
no longer be used[2].
This code was transformed with the help of Coccinelle:
(linux-5.19-rc2$ spatch --jobs $(getconf _NPROCESSORS_ONLN) --sp-file script.cocci --include-headers --dir . > output.patch)
@@
identifier S, member, array;
type T1, T2;
@@
struct S {
...
T1 member;
T2 array[
- 0
];
};
-fstrict-flex-arrays=3 is coming and we need to land these changes
to prevent issues like these in the short future:
../fs/minix/dir.c:337:3: warning: 'strcpy' will always overflow; destination buffer has size 0,
but the source string has length 2 (including NUL byte) [-Wfortify-source]
strcpy(de3->name, ".");
^
Since these are all [0] to [] changes, the risk to UAPI is nearly zero. If
this breaks anything, we can use a union with a new member name.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexible_array_member
[2] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v5.16/process/deprecated.html#zero-length-and-one-element-arrays
Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/78
Build-tested-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/62b675ec.wKX6AOZ6cbE71vtF%25lkp@intel.com/
Acked-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> # For ndctl.h
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>
When building the tools/testing/selftest/bpf subdirectory,
(running both a local directory "make" and a
"make -C tools/testing/selftests/bpf") I keep hitting the
following compilation error:
prog_tests/flow_dissector.c: In function ‘create_tap’:
prog_tests/flow_dissector.c:150:38: error: ‘IFF_NAPI’ undeclared (first
use in this function)
.ifr_flags = IFF_TAP | IFF_NO_PI | IFF_NAPI | IFF_NAPI_FRAGS,
^
prog_tests/flow_dissector.c:150:38: note: each undeclared identifier is
reported only once for each function it appears in
prog_tests/flow_dissector.c:150:49: error: ‘IFF_NAPI_FRAGS’ undeclared
Adding include/uapi/linux/if_tun.h to tools/include/uapi/linux
resolves the problem and ensures the compilation of the file
does not depend on having up-to-date kernel headers locally.
Signed-off-by: Alan Maguire <alan.maguire@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
