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06-Apr-2022 |
Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org> |
treewide: uapi: Replace zero-length arrays with flexible-array members 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>
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01-Nov-2017 |
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> |
License cleanup: add SPDX license identifier to uapi header files with no license Many user space API headers are missing licensing information, which makes it hard for compliance tools to determine the correct license. By default are files without license information under the default license of the kernel, which is GPLV2. Marking them GPLV2 would exclude them from being included in non GPLV2 code, which is obviously not intended. The user space API headers fall under the syscall exception which is in the kernels COPYING file: NOTE! This copyright does *not* cover user programs that use kernel services by normal system calls - this is merely considered normal use of the kernel, and does *not* fall under the heading of "derived work". otherwise syscall usage would not be possible. Update the files which contain no license information with an SPDX license identifier. The chosen identifier is 'GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note' which is the officially assigned identifier for the Linux syscall exception. SPDX license identifiers are a legally binding shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text. This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and Philippe Ombredanne. See the previous patch in this series for the methodology of how this patch was researched. Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org> Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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19-Oct-2017 |
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> |
isofs: use unsigned char types consistently Based on the discussion about the signed character field for the year, I went through all fields in the iso9660 and rockridge standards to see whether they should used signed or unsigned characters. Only a single 8-bit value is defined as signed per 'section 7.1.2': the timezone offset in a timestamp, this has always been handled correctly through explicit sign-extension. All others are either '7.1.1 8-bit unsigned numerical values' or composite fields. I also read the linux source code and came to the same conclusion, also I could not find any other part of the implementation that actually behaves differently for signed or unsigned values. Since it is still ambigous to use plain 'char' in interface definitions, I'm changing all fields representing numbers and reserved bytes to the unambiguous '__u8'. Fields that hold actual strings are left as 'char' arrays. I built the code with '-Wpointer-sign -Wsign-compare' to see if anything got left out, but couldn't find anything wrong with the remaining warnings. This patch should not change runtime behavior and does not need to be backported. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
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13-Oct-2012 |
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> |
UAPI: (Scripted) Disintegrate include/linux Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
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