netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] ixgbe: Use struct

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Message-Id: <20190208.230441.540225772332738493.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Fri, 08 Feb 2019 23:04:41 -0800 (PST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     gustavo@...eddedor.com
Cc:     jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com, intel-wired-lan@...ts.osuosl.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] ixgbe: Use struct_size() helper

From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@...eddedor.com>
Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2019 22:22:58 -0600

> 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[];
> };
> 
> size = sizeof(struct foo) + count * sizeof(struct boo);
> instance = kzalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
> 
> Instead of leaving these open-coded and prone to type mistakes, we can
> now use the new struct_size() helper:
> 
> instance = kzalloc(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>

Applied.