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From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] IB/cm: Use struct_size() in kmalloc()
Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2019 11:48:46 -0700
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To: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
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On Mon, Jan 07, 2019 at 11:26:16AM -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 = 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>
> ---
>  drivers/infiniband/core/cm.c | 3 +--
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

Applied to for-next thanks

Jason