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From: Sergey Matyukevich <sergey.matyukevich.os@quantenna.com>
To: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Cc: Igor Mitsyanko <imitsyanko@quantenna.com>,
	Avinash Patil <avinashp@quantenna.com>,
	Sergey Matyukevich <smatyukevich@quantenna.com>,
	Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	"linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
	"netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH][next] qtnfmac: replace qtnf_cmd_acl_data_size() with struct_size()
Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2019 13:32:42 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190404133234.2uatru2vlw3ntrmv@bars> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190403170236.GA31637@embeddedor>

> 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[];
> };
> 
> size = sizeof(struct foo) + count * sizeof(struct boo);
> instance = kzalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL)
> 
> Instead of leaving these open-coded and prone to type mistakes, we can
> now use the new struct_size() helper:
> 
> size = struct_size(instance, entry, count);
> 
> or
> 
> instance = kzalloc(struct_size(instance, entry, count), GFP_KERNEL)
> 
> Based on the above, replace qtnf_cmd_acl_data_size() with the
> new struct_size() helper.
> 
> This code was detected with the help of Coccinelle.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
> ---
>  drivers/net/wireless/quantenna/qtnfmac/commands.c | 15 ++++-----------
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

Hi Gustavo,

Thanks for the patch! By the way, it does not apply cleanly, so it needs
to be rebased on top of the up-to-date wireless-drivers-next tree. Let
me know if you would prefer me to care about rebase. Then I will
add this patch to the upcoming series of qtnfmac fixes.

Reviewed-by: Sergey Matyukevich <sergey.matyukevich.os@quantenna.com>

Regards,
Sergey

  reply	other threads:[~2019-04-04 13:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-04-03 17:02 [PATCH][next] qtnfmac: replace qtnf_cmd_acl_data_size() with struct_size() Gustavo A. R. Silva
2019-04-04 13:32 ` Sergey Matyukevich [this message]
2019-04-04 16:01   ` Gustavo A. R. Silva
2019-04-04 16:33     ` Gustavo A. R. Silva
2019-04-04 16:40       ` Kalle Valo
2019-04-04 16:45         ` Gustavo A. R. Silva
2019-04-04 16:38 ` Kalle Valo

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