linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] scsi: virtio_scsi: Use struct

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Date:   Fri, 12 Jul 2019 10:14:23 -0400
From:   "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>
To:     "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>
Cc:     "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@...eddedor.com>,
        Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>,
        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@...hat.com>,
        "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@...ux.ibm.com>,
        virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
        linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scsi: virtio_scsi: Use struct_size() helper

On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 08:18:54PM -0400, Martin K. Petersen wrote:
> 
> Gustavo,
> 
> > 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:
> 
> Applied to 5.4/scsi-queue, thanks!

Oh I put it in the virtio tree already.
Can't hurt I guess :)

> -- 
> Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering