On Thu 29 Aug 11:17 PDT 2019, Gustavo A. R. Silva 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 {
> ...
> struct intent_pair intents[];
> } __packed * msg;
>
> 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:
>
> sizeof(*msg) + sizeof(struct intent_pair) * count
>
> with:
>
> struct_size(msg, intents, count)
>
> This code was detected with the help of Coccinelle.
>
> Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <[email protected]>
Applied, thanks!
> ---
> drivers/rpmsg/qcom_glink_native.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/rpmsg/qcom_glink_native.c
> b/drivers/rpmsg/qcom_glink_native.c
> index f46c787733e8..621f1afd4d6b 100644
> --- a/drivers/rpmsg/qcom_glink_native.c
> +++ b/drivers/rpmsg/qcom_glink_native.c
> @@ -892,7 +892,7 @@ static void qcom_glink_handle_intent(struct qcom_glink
> *glink,
> struct intent_pair intents[];
> } __packed * msg;
>
> - const size_t msglen = sizeof(*msg) + sizeof(struct intent_pair) * count;
> + const size_t msglen = struct_size(msg, intents, count);
> int ret;
> int i;
> unsigned long flags;
> --
> 2.23.0
>
