Re: [PATCH][next] Bluetooth: a2mp: Use struct_size() helper

From: Gustavo A. R. Silva
Date: Mon Feb 18 2019 - 12:50:59 EST




On 2/18/19 7:02 AM, Marcel Holtmann wrote:
> Hi Gustavo,
>
>> 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 = alloc(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);
>> instance = alloc(size, GFP_KERNEL)
>>
>> This code was detected with the help of Coccinelle.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> net/bluetooth/a2mp.c | 2 +-
>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> patch has been applied to bluetooth-next tree.
>

Thanks Marcel.

--
Gustavo