On Fri, Feb 08, 2019 at 10:56:48AM +0100, Simon Horman wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 07, 2019 at 06:44:56PM -0600, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
> > 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 = alloc(size, GFP_KERNEL)
> >
> > Instead of leaving these open-coded and prone to type mistakes, we can
> > now use the new struct_size() helper:
> >
> > size = struct_size(instance, entry, count);
> >
> > This code was detected with the help of Coccinelle.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gust...@embeddedor.com>
>
> Acked-by: Simon Horman <horms+rene...@verge.net.au>
>
> Pablo, could you consider applying this?
Applied, thanks!
