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    SubjectRe: [PATCH net-next] nfp: use struct_size() in kzalloc()
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    From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
    Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2019 18:38:59 -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[];
    > };
    >
    > instance = kzalloc(sizeof(struct foo) + count * sizeof(struct boo), 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.

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