Re: [PATCH] kvm: Use struct_size() in kmalloc()

["Radim Krčmář" <rkrcmar@redhat.com>]

2019-01-04 10:29-0600, Gustavo A. R. Silva:
> 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 = kmalloc(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 = kmalloc(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>
> ---

Queued, thanks.