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* [PATCH net-next] mpls_iptunnel: use struct_size() helper
@ 2019-02-08  1:10 Gustavo A. R. Silva
  2019-02-09  6:57 ` David Miller
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Gustavo A. R. Silva @ 2019-02-08  1:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: David S. Miller; +Cc: netdev, linux-kernel, Gustavo A. R. Silva

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 = alloc(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:

instance = alloc(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/mpls/mpls_iptunnel.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/mpls/mpls_iptunnel.c b/net/mpls/mpls_iptunnel.c
index 94f53a9b7d1a..dda8930f20e7 100644
--- a/net/mpls/mpls_iptunnel.c
+++ b/net/mpls/mpls_iptunnel.c
@@ -183,8 +183,8 @@ static int mpls_build_state(struct nlattr *nla,
 			   &n_labels, NULL, extack))
 		return -EINVAL;
 
-	newts = lwtunnel_state_alloc(sizeof(*tun_encap_info) +
-				     n_labels * sizeof(u32));
+	newts = lwtunnel_state_alloc(struct_size(tun_encap_info, label,
+						 n_labels));
 	if (!newts)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
-- 
2.20.1


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* Re: [PATCH net-next] mpls_iptunnel: use struct_size() helper
  2019-02-08  1:10 [PATCH net-next] mpls_iptunnel: use struct_size() helper Gustavo A. R. Silva
@ 2019-02-09  6:57 ` David Miller
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: David Miller @ 2019-02-09  6:57 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: gustavo; +Cc: netdev, linux-kernel

From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2019 19:10:52 -0600

> 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 = alloc(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:
> 
> instance = alloc(struct_size(instance, entry, count));
> 
> This code was detected with the help of Coccinelle.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>

Applied.

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