netdev - [PATCH net-next] nfp: flower: cmsg: use struct

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Date:   Thu, 7 Feb 2019 21:47:25 -0600
From:   "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@...eddedor.com>
To:     Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:     oss-drivers@...ronome.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@...eddedor.com>
Subject: [PATCH net-next] nfp: flower: cmsg: 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;
    void *entry[];
};

size = sizeof(struct foo) + count * sizeof(void *);
instance = alloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);

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), GFP_KERNEL);

Notice that, in this case, variable size is not necessary, hence
it is removed.

This code was detected with the help of Coccinelle.

Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@...eddedor.com>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/netronome/nfp/flower/cmsg.c | 6 ++----
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/netronome/nfp/flower/cmsg.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/netronome/nfp/flower/cmsg.c
index 56b22ea32474..cf9e1118ee8f 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/netronome/nfp/flower/cmsg.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/netronome/nfp/flower/cmsg.c
@@ -45,11 +45,9 @@ nfp_flower_cmsg_mac_repr_start(struct nfp_app *app, unsigned int num_ports)
 {
 	struct nfp_flower_cmsg_mac_repr *msg;
 	struct sk_buff *skb;
-	unsigned int size;
 
-	size = sizeof(*msg) + num_ports * sizeof(msg->ports[0]);
-	skb = nfp_flower_cmsg_alloc(app, size, NFP_FLOWER_CMSG_TYPE_MAC_REPR,
-				    GFP_KERNEL);
+	skb = nfp_flower_cmsg_alloc(app, struct_size(msg, ports, num_ports),
+				    NFP_FLOWER_CMSG_TYPE_MAC_REPR, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!skb)
 		return NULL;
 
-- 
2.20.1