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SubjectRe: [PATCH] audit: Use struct_size() helper in alloc_chunk
On Sun, May 24, 2020 at 4:47 PM Gustavo A. R. Silva
<gustavoars@kernel.org> 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 audit_chunk {
> ...
> struct node {
> struct list_head list;
> struct audit_tree *owner;
> unsigned index; /* index; upper bit indicates 'will prune' */
> } owners[];
> };
>
> 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:
>
> offsetof(struct audit_chunk, owners) + count * sizeof(struct node);
>
> with:
>
> struct_size(chunk, owners, count)
>
> This code was detected with the help of Coccinelle.
>
> Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>
> ---
> kernel/audit_tree.c | 4 +---
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)

Thanks, this looks reasonable to me, but it came in too late for the
v5.8 merge window (I dislike taking changes past -rc5/6 unless
critical). Once the merge window closes I'll merge this into
audit/next.

--
paul moore
www.paul-moore.com

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