Re: [PATCH] ioat/dca: Use struct_size() helper

[Dave Jiang]

On 8/28/19 11:40 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 ioat_dca_priv {
> 	...
>         struct ioat_dca_slot     req_slots[0];
> };
> 
> Make use of the struct_size() helper instead of an open-coded version
> in order to avoid any potential type mistakes.
> 
> So, replace the following form:
> 
> sizeof(*ioatdca) + (sizeof(struct ioat_dca_slot) * slots)
> 
> with:
> 
> struct_size(ioatdca, req_slots, slots)
> 
> This code was detected with the help of Coccinelle.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@xxxxxxxxx>

> ---
>  drivers/dma/ioat/dca.c | 3 +--
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/dma/ioat/dca.c b/drivers/dma/ioat/dca.c
> index 70fd8454d002..be61c32a876f 100644
> --- a/drivers/dma/ioat/dca.c
> +++ b/drivers/dma/ioat/dca.c
> @@ -286,8 +286,7 @@ struct dca_provider *ioat_dca_init(struct pci_dev *pdev, void __iomem *iobase)
>  		return NULL;
>  
>  	dca = alloc_dca_provider(&ioat_dca_ops,
> -				 sizeof(*ioatdca)
> -				      + (sizeof(struct ioat_dca_slot) * slots));
> +				 struct_size(ioatdca, req_slots, slots));
>  	if (!dca)
>  		return NULL;
>  
>