Re: [PATCH][next] zd1211rw: zd_usb: Use struct_size() helper
From: Kalle Valo
Date: Tue Sep 03 2019 - 09:45:59 EST
"Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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 usb_int_regs {
> ...
> struct reg_data regs[0];
> } __packed;
>
> 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 function:
>
> static int usb_int_regs_length(unsigned int count)
> {
> return sizeof(struct usb_int_regs) + count * sizeof(struct reg_data);
> }
>
> with:
>
> struct_size(regs, regs, count)
>
> This code was detected with the help of Coccinelle.
>
> Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Patch applied to wireless-drivers-next.git, thanks.
84b0b6635247 zd1211rw: zd_usb: Use struct_size() helper
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