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libnvdimm/region: 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] KSPP#21 [3] commit 7649773 ("cxgb3/l2t: Fix undefined behaviour") Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <[email protected]> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <[email protected]>
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drivers/nvdimm/nd.h

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@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ struct nd_region_data {
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int ns_count;
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int ns_active;
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unsigned int hints_shift;
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void __iomem *flush_wpq[0];
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void __iomem *flush_wpq[];
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};
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static inline void __iomem *ndrd_get_flush_wpq(struct nd_region_data *ndrd,
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struct nd_interleave_set *nd_set;
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struct nd_percpu_lane __percpu *lane;
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int (*flush)(struct nd_region *nd_region, struct bio *bio);
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struct nd_mapping mapping[0];
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struct nd_mapping mapping[];
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};
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struct nd_blk_region {

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