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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Cc: Jacek Anaszewski <jacek.anaszewski@gmail.com>,
	Dan Murphy <dmurphy@ti.com>,
	linux-leds@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] leds: is31fl32xx: Use struct_size() helper
Date: Sun, 1 Sep 2019 12:26:33 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190901102633.GB29681@amd> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190830181448.GA24483@embeddedor>

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On Fri 2019-08-30 13:14:48, 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 is31fl32xx_priv {
> 	...
>         struct is31fl32xx_led_data leds[0];
> };
> 
> Make use of the struct_size() helper instead of an open-coded version
> in order to avoid any potential type mistakes.
> 
> So, replace the following function:
> 
> static inline size_t sizeof_is31fl32xx_priv(int num_leds)
> {
>        return sizeof(struct is31fl32xx_priv) +
>                      (sizeof(struct is31fl32xx_led_data) * num_leds);
> }
> 
> with:
> 
> struct_size(priv, leds, count)
> 
> This code was detected with the help of Coccinelle.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>

Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
								Pavel
								
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      parent reply	other threads:[~2019-09-01 10:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-08-30 18:14 [PATCH] leds: is31fl32xx: Use struct_size() helper Gustavo A. R. Silva
2019-08-30 20:29 ` Jacek Anaszewski
2019-09-01 10:26 ` Pavel Machek [this message]

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