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 <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/62b675ec.wKX6AOZ6cbE71vtF%[email protected]/
Acked-by: Dan Williams <[email protected]> # For ndctl.h
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <[email protected]>
Commit 18d627113b (firewire: prevent dropping of completed iso packet
header data) was intended to be an obvious bug fix, but libdc1394 and
FlyCap2 depend on the old behaviour by ignoring all returned information
and thus not noticing that not all packets have been received yet. The
result was that the video frame buffers would be saved before they
contained the correct data.
Reintroduce the old behaviour for old clients.
Tested-by: Stepan Salenikovich <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Josep Bosch <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]> # 3.4+
Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <[email protected]>
Gustavo A. R. Silva