[Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH 5/6] i40e: Use struct_size() in kzalloc()

[Bowers, AndrewX]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Intel-wired-lan [mailto:intel-wired-lan-bounces at osuosl.org] On
> Behalf Of Jeff Kirsher
> Sent: Friday, March 29, 2019 4:39 PM
> To: intel-wired-lan at lists.osuosl.org
> Subject: [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH 5/6] i40e: Use struct_size() in kzalloc()
> 
> From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo at embeddedor.com>
> 
> 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 = kzalloc(size,
> GFP_KERNEL)
> 
> Instead of leaving these open-coded and prone to type mistakes, we can
> now use the new struct_size() helper:
> 
> instance = kzalloc(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 at embeddedor.com>
> ---
>  drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_client.c | 6 ++----
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

Tested-by: Andrew Bowers <andrewx.bowers at intel.com>