Re: [PATCH net-next] nfp: use struct_size() in kzalloc()
From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Date: 2019-02-01 23:23:00
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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Date: 2019-02-01 23:23:00
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From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <redacted> Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2019 18:38:59 -0600
One of the more common cases of allocation size calculations is finding
the size of a structure that has a zero-sized array at the end, along
with memory for some number of elements for that array. For example:
struct foo {
int stuff;
struct boo entry[];
};
instance = kzalloc(sizeof(struct foo) + count * sizeof(struct boo), GFP_KERNEL);
Instead of leaving these open-coded and prone to type mistakes, we can
now use the new struct_size() helper:
instance = kzalloc(struct_size(instance, entry, count), GFP_KERNEL);
This code was detected with the help of Coccinelle.
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <redacted>Applied.