+++ Gustavo A. R. Silva [06/06/19 13:18 -0500]:
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 module_sect_attrs {
...
struct module_sect_attr attrs[0];
};
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(*sect_attrs) + nloaded * sizeof(sect_attrs->attrs[0]
with:
struct_size(sect_attrs, attrs, nloaded)
This code was detected with the help of Coccinelle.
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gust...@embeddedor.com>
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Changes in v2:
- Update changelog text by adding a better description for
the motivation and usage of the struct_size() helper.
Applied. Thanks a lot!
Jessica