From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.0 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SIGNED_OFF_BY,SPF_PASS autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59F92C43387 for ; Thu, 17 Jan 2019 05:11:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3064C205C9 for ; Thu, 17 Jan 2019 05:11:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1726321AbfAQFLs (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jan 2019 00:11:48 -0500 Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.9]:49104 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1725953AbfAQFLs (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jan 2019 00:11:48 -0500 Received: from localhost (unknown [IPv6:2601:601:9f80:35cd::bf5]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) (Authenticated sender: davem-davemloft) by shards.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id B32C31400B7B3; Wed, 16 Jan 2019 21:11:47 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2019 21:11:47 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <20190116.211147.804387430896252660.davem@davemloft.net> To: gustavo@embeddedor.com Cc: pshelar@ovn.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, dev@openvswitch.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] openvswitch: meter: Use struct_size() in kzalloc() From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <20190115211917.GA17058@embeddedor> References: <20190115211917.GA17058@embeddedor> X-Mailer: Mew version 6.8 on Emacs 26.1 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.5.12 (shards.monkeyblade.net [149.20.54.216]); Wed, 16 Jan 2019 21:11:47 -0800 (PST) Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: netdev@vger.kernel.org From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2019 15:19:17 -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 Applied.