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Subject: Re: [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH][next] iavf: iavf_client: use struct_size() helper
From: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher () intel ! com>
Date: 2019-03-29 22:37:33
Message-ID: 59cd9dd2381c029fe0ca81510f016e28ff906f18.camel () intel ! com
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On Thu, 2019-03-28 at 15:36 -0500, 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 foo {
> int stuff;
> struct boo entry[];
> };
>
> size = sizeof(struct foo) + count * sizeof(struct boo);
>
> 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);
>
> This code was detected with the help of Coccinelle.
>
> Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
> ---
> drivers/net/ethernet/intel/iavf/iavf_client.c | 7 +++----
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
Thanks Gustavo, I will queue this up.
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