Hi all,

Friendly ping:

Who can take this?

Thanks
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Gustavo

On 1/8/19 10:02 AM, 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 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: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gust...@embeddedor.com>
> ---
>  drivers/md/dm-switch.c | 3 +--
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-switch.c b/drivers/md/dm-switch.c
> index fae35caf3672..8a0f057b8122 100644
> --- a/drivers/md/dm-switch.c
> +++ b/drivers/md/dm-switch.c
> @@ -61,8 +61,7 @@ static struct switch_ctx *alloc_switch_ctx(struct dm_target 
> *ti, unsigned nr_pat
>  {
>       struct switch_ctx *sctx;
>  
> -     sctx = kzalloc(sizeof(struct switch_ctx) + nr_paths * sizeof(struct 
> switch_path),
> -                    GFP_KERNEL);
> +     sctx = kzalloc(struct_size(sctx, path_list, nr_paths), GFP_KERNEL);
>       if (!sctx)
>               return NULL;
>  
> 

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