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Subject[PATCH net-next] net/sched: use struct_size() helper
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@embeddedor.com>
---
net/sched/act_pedit.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/sched/act_pedit.c b/net/sched/act_pedit.c
index 2b372a06b432..3663d3b615a4 100644
--- a/net/sched/act_pedit.c
+++ b/net/sched/act_pedit.c
@@ -406,7 +406,7 @@ static int tcf_pedit_dump(struct sk_buff *skb, struct tc_action *a,
struct tcf_t t;
int s;

- s = sizeof(*opt) + p->tcfp_nkeys * sizeof(struct tc_pedit_key);
+ s = struct_size(opt, keys, p->tcfp_nkeys);

/* netlink spinlocks held above us - must use ATOMIC */
opt = kzalloc(s, GFP_ATOMIC);
--
2.20.1
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