Hi all,
Friendly ping:
Who can take this?
Thanks
--
Gustavo
On 2/7/19 9:10 PM, 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>
> ---
> drivers/net/can/usb/kvaser_usb/kvaser_usb_core.c | 3 +--
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/can/usb/kvaser_usb/kvaser_usb_core.c b/drivers/net/can/usb/kvaser_usb/kvaser_usb_core.c
> index c89c7d4900d7..0f1d3e807d63 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/can/usb/kvaser_usb/kvaser_usb_core.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/can/usb/kvaser_usb/kvaser_usb_core.c
> @@ -643,8 +643,7 @@ static int kvaser_usb_init_one(struct kvaser_usb *dev,
> return err;
> }
>
> - netdev = alloc_candev(sizeof(*priv) +
> - dev->max_tx_urbs * sizeof(*priv->tx_contexts),
> + netdev = alloc_candev(struct_size(priv, tx_contexts, dev->max_tx_urbs),
> dev->max_tx_urbs);
> if (!netdev) {
> dev_err(&dev->intf->dev, "Cannot alloc candev\n");
>
