linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] qxl: Use struct

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Date:   Wed, 9 Jan 2019 09:32:02 +0100
From:   Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@...hat.com>
To:     "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@...eddedor.com>
Cc:     Dave Airlie <airlied@...hat.com>, David Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>,
        Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch>,
        virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
        dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] qxl: Use struct_size() in kzalloc()

On Tue, Jan 08, 2019 at 10:21:52AM -0600, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
> 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;
>     void *entry[];
> };
> 
> instance = kzalloc(sizeof(struct foo) + sizeof(void *) * count, 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.

Patch queued up.

thanks,
  Gerd