Re: [PATCH net-next] can: kvaser_usb: Use struct_size() in alloc_candev()

From: Marc Kleine-Budde
Date: Tue Feb 26 2019 - 02:52:33 EST


On 2/8/19 4:10 AM, 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;
> void *entry[];
> };
>
> instance = alloc(sizeof(struct foo) + count * sizeof(void *));
>
> 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 to linux-can-next.

Tnx,
Marc

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