Re: [PATCH][next] qtnfmac: Use struct_size() in kzalloc()

[Sergey Matyukevich]

> 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 ieee80211_regdomain {
>         ...
>         struct ieee80211_reg_rule reg_rules[];
> };
> 
> instance = kzalloc(sizeof(*mac->rd) +
>                           sizeof(struct ieee80211_reg_rule) *
>                           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, reg_rules, count), GFP_KERNEL);
> 
> This code was detected with the help of Coccinelle.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
 
Hi Gustavo,
Thanks for the patch !

Reviewed-by: Sergey Matyukevich <sergey.matyukevich.os@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Regards,
Sergey