On Thu, Jun 06, 2019 at 09:57:13AM -0500, 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 qat_alg_buf_list {
> ...
> struct qat_alg_buf bufers[];
> } __packed __aligned(64);
>
> 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(struct qat_alg_buf_list) + ((1 + n) * sizeof(struct qat_alg_buf))
>
> with:
>
> struct_size(bufl, bufers, n + 1)
>
> This code was detected with the help of Coccinelle.
>
> Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gust...@embeddedor.com>
> ---
> drivers/crypto/qat/qat_common/qat_algs.c | 6 ++----
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
Patch applied. Thanks.
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