Re: [PATCH net-next] ipvs: Use struct_size() helper

[Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Feb 08, 2019 at 10:56:48AM +0100, Simon Horman wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 07, 2019 at 06:44:56PM -0600, 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;
> >     struct boo entry[];
> > };
> > 
> > size = sizeof(struct foo) + count * sizeof(struct boo);
> > instance = alloc(size, GFP_KERNEL)
> > 
> > Instead of leaving these open-coded and prone to type mistakes, we can
> > now use the new struct_size() helper:
> > 
> > size = struct_size(instance, entry, count);
> > 
> > This code was detected with the help of Coccinelle.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Acked-by: Simon Horman <horms+renesas@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Pablo, could you consider applying this?

Applied, thanks!