Re: [PATCH] rpmsg: glink: Use struct_size() helper

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On Thu 29 Aug 11:17 PDT 2019, 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 {
> 	...
> 	struct intent_pair intents[];
> } __packed * msg;
> 
> 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(*msg) + sizeof(struct intent_pair) * count
> 
> with:
> 
> struct_size(msg, intents, count)
> 
> This code was detected with the help of Coccinelle.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Applied, thanks!

> ---
>  drivers/rpmsg/qcom_glink_native.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/rpmsg/qcom_glink_native.c b/drivers/rpmsg/qcom_glink_native.c
> index f46c787733e8..621f1afd4d6b 100644
> --- a/drivers/rpmsg/qcom_glink_native.c
> +++ b/drivers/rpmsg/qcom_glink_native.c
> @@ -892,7 +892,7 @@ static void qcom_glink_handle_intent(struct qcom_glink *glink,
>  		struct intent_pair intents[];
>  	} __packed * msg;
>  
> -	const size_t msglen = sizeof(*msg) + sizeof(struct intent_pair) * count;
> +	const size_t msglen = struct_size(msg, intents, count);
>  	int ret;
>  	int i;
>  	unsigned long flags;
> -- 
> 2.23.0
> 



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