netdev - [PATCH net-next] mpls_iptunnel: use struct

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Date:   Thu, 7 Feb 2019 19:10:52 -0600
From:   "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@...eddedor.com>
To:     "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@...eddedor.com>
Subject: [PATCH net-next] mpls_iptunnel: use struct_size() helper

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;
    struct boo entry[];
};

instance = alloc(sizeof(struct foo) + count * sizeof(struct boo));

Instead of leaving these open-coded and prone to type mistakes, we can
now use the new struct_size() helper:

instance = alloc(struct_size(instance, entry, count));

This code was detected with the help of Coccinelle.

Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@...eddedor.com>
---
 net/mpls/mpls_iptunnel.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/mpls/mpls_iptunnel.c b/net/mpls/mpls_iptunnel.c
index 94f53a9b7d1a..dda8930f20e7 100644
--- a/net/mpls/mpls_iptunnel.c
+++ b/net/mpls/mpls_iptunnel.c
@@ -183,8 +183,8 @@ static int mpls_build_state(struct nlattr *nla,
 			   &n_labels, NULL, extack))
 		return -EINVAL;
 
-	newts = lwtunnel_state_alloc(sizeof(*tun_encap_info) +
-				     n_labels * sizeof(u32));
+	newts = lwtunnel_state_alloc(struct_size(tun_encap_info, label,
+						 n_labels));
 	if (!newts)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
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