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Date:   Tue, 14 May 2019 08:16:11 +0300
From:   Luciano Coelho <luciano.coelho@...el.com>
To:     "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@...eddedor.com>,
        Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@...el.com>,
        Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@...el.com>,
        Intel Linux Wireless <linuxwifi@...el.com>,
        Kalle Valo <kvalo@...eaurora.org>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:     linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][next] iwlwifi: lib: Use struct_size() helper

On Wed, 2019-04-03 at 10:59 -0500, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
> Make use of the struct_size() helper instead of an open-coded version
> in order to avoid any potential type mistakes, in particular in the
> context in which this code is being used.
> 
> So, change the following form:
> 
> sizeof(*pattern_cmd) +
>                wowlan->n_patterns * sizeof(struct
> iwlagn_wowlan_pattern)
> 
>  to :
> 
> struct_size(pattern_cmd, patterns, wowlan->n_patterns)
> 
> This code was detected with the help of Coccinelle.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@...eddedor.com>
> ---
>  drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/dvm/lib.c | 3 +--
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/dvm/lib.c
> b/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/dvm/lib.c
> index b2f172d4f78a..cae9cd438697 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/dvm/lib.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/dvm/lib.c
> @@ -1022,8 +1022,7 @@ int iwlagn_send_patterns(struct iwl_priv *priv,
>  	if (!wowlan->n_patterns)
>  		return 0;
>  
> -	cmd.len[0] = sizeof(*pattern_cmd) +
> -		wowlan->n_patterns * sizeof(struct
> iwlagn_wowlan_pattern);
> +	cmd.len[0] = struct_size(pattern_cmd, patterns, wowlan-
> >n_patterns);
>  
>  	pattern_cmd = kmalloc(cmd.len[0], GFP_KERNEL);
>  	if (!pattern_cmd)

Thanks! Applied to our internal tree and it will reach the mainline
following our normal upstreaming process.

--
Cheers,
Luca.