Re: [PATCH net-next] mpls_iptunnel: use struct_size() helper

[David Miller]

From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2019 19:10:52 -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 = alloc(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:
> 
> instance = alloc(struct_size(instance, entry, count));
> 
> This code was detected with the help of Coccinelle.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Applied.