• Gustavo A. R. Silva's avatar
    openvswitch: meter: Use struct_size() in kzalloc() · c5c3899d
    Gustavo A. R. Silva authored
    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 = kzalloc(sizeof(struct foo) + count * sizeof(struct boo), GFP_KERNEL);
    
    Instead of leaving these open-coded and prone to type mistakes, we can now
    use the new struct_size() helper:
    
    instance = kzalloc(struct_size(instance, entry, count), GFP_KERNEL);
    
    This code was detected with the help of Coccinelle.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarGustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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