netdev - Re: [PATCH wireless] mwifiex: Fix the size of a memory allocation in mwifiex_ret_802_11

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Date: Sat, 6 May 2023 18:06:42 +0200
From: Simon Horman <simon.horman@...igine.com>
To: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@...adoo.fr>
Cc: Amitkumar Karwar <amitkarwar@...il.com>,
	Ganapathi Bhat <ganapathi017@...il.com>,
	Sharvari Harisangam <sharvari.harisangam@....com>,
	Xinming Hu <huxinming820@...il.com>, Kalle Valo <kvalo@...nel.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
	chunfan chen <jeffc@...vell.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, Xinming Hu <huxm@...vell.com>,
	Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@...vell.com>,
	linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH wireless] mwifiex: Fix the size of a memory allocation in
 mwifiex_ret_802_11_scan()

On Sat, May 06, 2023 at 03:53:15PM +0200, Christophe JAILLET wrote:
> The type of "mwifiex_adapter->nd_info" is "struct cfg80211_wowlan_nd_info",
> not "struct cfg80211_wowlan_nd_match".
> 
> Use struct_size() to ease the computation of the needed size.
> 
> The current code over-allocates some memory, so is safe.
> But it wastes 32 bytes.
> 
> Fixes: 7d7f07d8c5d3 ("mwifiex: add wowlan net-detect support")
> Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@...adoo.fr>

Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <simon.horman@...igine.com>