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SubjectRe: [PATCH] iwlwifi: eeprom-parse: use struct_size() in kzalloc()
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On 1/22/19 4:58 AM, Luciano Coelho wrote:
> On Tue, 2019-01-08 at 11:17 -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;
>> void *entry[];
>> };
>>
>> instance = kzalloc(sizeof(struct foo) + sizeof(void *) * count,
>> 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);
>>
>> This code was detected with the help of Coccinelle.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
>> ---
>
> Applied to our internal tree, thanks! It will reach the mainline
> following our normal upstreaming process.
>

Great. :)

Thanks, Luca.

--
Gustavo

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