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    • Gustavo A. R. Silva's avatar
      misc: enclosure: Use struct_size() in kzalloc() · e3575c12
      Gustavo A. R. Silva authored
      
      
      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[];
      };
      
      instance = kzalloc(sizeof(struct foo) + sizeof(void *) * count, 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);
      
      This code was detected with the help of Coccinelle.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarGustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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