On 04/03/20 01:51, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> This is a tree-wide cleanup inspired by a Linux kernel commit
> (from Gustavo A. R. Silva).
>
> --v-- description start --v--
>
> 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], 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 unadvertenly introduced [2] to the
> Linux codebase from now on.
>
> --^-- description end --^--
>
> Do the similar housekeeping in the QEMU codebase (which uses
> C99 since commit 7be41675f7cb).
>
> The first patch is done with the help of a coccinelle semantic
> patch. However Coccinelle does not recognize:
>
> struct foo {
> int stuff;
> struct boo array[];
> } QEMU_PACKED;
>
> but does recognize:
>
> struct QEMU_PACKED foo {
> int stuff;
> struct boo array[];
> };
>
> I'm not sure why, neither it is worth refactoring all QEMU
> structures to use the attributes before the structure name,
> so I did the 2nd patch manually.
>
> Anyway this is annoying, because many structures are not handled
> by coccinelle. Maybe this needs to be reported to upstream
> coccinelle?
>
> I used spatch 1.0.8 with:
>
> -I include --include-headers \
> --macro-file scripts/cocci-macro-file.h \
> --keep-comments --indent 4
>
> Regards,
>
> Phil.
>
> Philippe Mathieu-Daudé (2):
> misc: Replace zero-length arrays with flexible array member
> (automatic)
> misc: Replace zero-length arrays with flexible array member (manual)
>
> docs/interop/vhost-user.rst | 4 ++--
> block/qed.h | 2 +-
> bsd-user/qemu.h | 2 +-
> contrib/libvhost-user/libvhost-user.h | 2 +-
> hw/m68k/bootinfo.h | 2 +-
> hw/scsi/srp.h | 6 +++---
> hw/xen/xen_pt.h | 2 +-
> include/hw/acpi/acpi-defs.h | 16 ++++++++--------
> include/hw/arm/smmu-common.h | 2 +-
> include/hw/boards.h | 2 +-
> include/hw/i386/intel_iommu.h | 3 ++-
> include/hw/s390x/event-facility.h | 2 +-
> include/hw/s390x/sclp.h | 8 ++++----
> include/hw/virtio/virtio-iommu.h | 2 +-
> include/sysemu/cryptodev.h | 2 +-
> include/tcg/tcg.h | 2 +-
> pc-bios/s390-ccw/bootmap.h | 2 +-
> pc-bios/s390-ccw/sclp.h | 2 +-
> tests/qtest/libqos/ahci.h | 2 +-
> block/linux-aio.c | 2 +-
> block/vmdk.c | 2 +-
> hw/acpi/nvdimm.c | 6 +++---
> hw/char/sclpconsole-lm.c | 2 +-
> hw/char/sclpconsole.c | 2 +-
> hw/dma/soc_dma.c | 2 +-
> hw/i386/x86.c | 2 +-
> hw/misc/omap_l4.c | 2 +-
> hw/nvram/eeprom93xx.c | 2 +-
> hw/rdma/vmw/pvrdma_qp_ops.c | 4 ++--
> hw/s390x/virtio-ccw.c | 2 +-
> hw/usb/dev-network.c | 2 +-
> hw/usb/dev-smartcard-reader.c | 4 ++--
> hw/virtio/virtio.c | 4 ++--
> net/queue.c | 2 +-
> target/s390x/ioinst.c | 2 +-
> 35 files changed, 54 insertions(+), 53 deletions(-)
>
Queued (minus the qed part).
Paolo
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