netdev - [PATCH] net: use 32-bit arithmetic while allocating net device

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Date:   Thu, 21 Sep 2017 23:33:29 +0300
From:   Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
To:     davem@...emloft.net
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] net: use 32-bit arithmetic while allocating net device

Private part of allocation is never big enough to warrant size_t.

Space savings:

	add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 0/1 up/down: 0/-10 (-10)
	function                                     old     new   delta
	alloc_netdev_mqs                            1120    1110     -10

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
---

 net/core/dev.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -7989,7 +7989,7 @@ struct net_device *alloc_netdev_mqs(int sizeof_priv, const char *name,
 		unsigned int txqs, unsigned int rxqs)
 {
 	struct net_device *dev;
-	size_t alloc_size;
+	unsigned int alloc_size;
 	struct net_device *p;
 
 	BUG_ON(strlen(name) >= sizeof(dev->name));