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Subject[PATCH net-next] net, decnet: use struct_size() in kzalloc()
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: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
---
net/decnet/dn_fib.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/decnet/dn_fib.c b/net/decnet/dn_fib.c
index f78fe58eafc8..6cd3737593a6 100644
--- a/net/decnet/dn_fib.c
+++ b/net/decnet/dn_fib.c
@@ -282,7 +282,7 @@ struct dn_fib_info *dn_fib_create_info(const struct rtmsg *r, struct nlattr *att
(nhs = dn_fib_count_nhs(attrs[RTA_MULTIPATH])) == 0)
goto err_inval;

- fi = kzalloc(sizeof(*fi)+nhs*sizeof(struct dn_fib_nh), GFP_KERNEL);
+ fi = kzalloc(struct_size(fi, fib_nh, nhs), GFP_KERNEL);
err = -ENOBUFS;
if (fi == NULL)
goto failure;
--
2.20.1
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