Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH][next] Bluetooth: Use struct_size() helper | From | Marcel Holtmann <> | Date | Tue, 23 Apr 2019 19:31:42 +0200 |
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Hi Gustavo,
> 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); > > 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); > > This code was detected with the help of Coccinelle. > > Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com> > --- > net/bluetooth/mgmt.c | 11 ++++------- > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
patch has been applied to bluetooth-next tree.
Regards
Marcel
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