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Subject[PATCH net-next] nfp: flower: cmsg: 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;
void *entry[];
};

size = sizeof(struct foo) + count * sizeof(void *);
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:

instance = alloc(struct_size(instance, entry, count), GFP_KERNEL);

Notice that, in this case, variable size is not necessary, hence
it is removed.

This code was detected with the help of Coccinelle.

Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/netronome/nfp/flower/cmsg.c | 6 ++----
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/netronome/nfp/flower/cmsg.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/netronome/nfp/flower/cmsg.c
index 56b22ea32474..cf9e1118ee8f 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/netronome/nfp/flower/cmsg.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/netronome/nfp/flower/cmsg.c
@@ -45,11 +45,9 @@ nfp_flower_cmsg_mac_repr_start(struct nfp_app *app, unsigned int num_ports)
{
struct nfp_flower_cmsg_mac_repr *msg;
struct sk_buff *skb;
- unsigned int size;

- size = sizeof(*msg) + num_ports * sizeof(msg->ports[0]);
- skb = nfp_flower_cmsg_alloc(app, size, NFP_FLOWER_CMSG_TYPE_MAC_REPR,
- GFP_KERNEL);
+ skb = nfp_flower_cmsg_alloc(app, struct_size(msg, ports, num_ports),
+ NFP_FLOWER_CMSG_TYPE_MAC_REPR, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!skb)
return NULL;

--
2.20.1
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