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,URIBL_BLOCKED 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 26816C282D8 for ; Fri, 1 Feb 2019 23:23:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02631214C6 for ; Fri, 1 Feb 2019 23:23:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1727554AbfBAXX0 (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Feb 2019 18:23:26 -0500 Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.9]:51298 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726421AbfBAXW4 (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Feb 2019 18:22:56 -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 DC47C144A0109; Fri, 1 Feb 2019 15:13:06 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2019 15:13:06 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <20190201.151306.1700795442985843050.davem@davemloft.net> To: gustavo@embeddedor.com Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] tulip: eeprom: use struct_size() in kmalloc() From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <20190131003355.GA27627@embeddedor> References: <20190131003355.GA27627@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]); Fri, 01 Feb 2019 15:13:07 -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: Wed, 30 Jan 2019 18:33:55 -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 = kmalloc(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 = kmalloc(struct_size(instance, entry, count), GFP_KERNEL); > > This code was detected with the help of Coccinelle. > > Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva Applied.