Re: [PATCH][next] qtnfmac: replace qtnf_cmd_acl_data_size() with struct_size()

[Kalle Valo]

"Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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;
>     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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Sergey Matyukevich <sergey.matyukevich.os@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Patch applied to wireless-drivers-next.git, thanks.

95336d4cb588 qtnfmac: replace qtnf_cmd_acl_data_size() with struct_size()

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