Re: [PATCH][next] Bluetooth: Use struct_size() helper

[Marcel Holtmann]

Hi Gustavo,

> 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);
> 
> Instead of leaving these open-coded and prone to type mistakes, we can
> now use the new struct_size() helper:
> 
> size = struct_size(instance, entry, count);
> 
> This code was detected with the help of Coccinelle.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> net/bluetooth/mgmt.c | 11 ++++-------
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

patch has been applied to bluetooth-next tree.

Regards

Marcel