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 spider_net_card {
...
struct spider_net_descr darray[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(struct spider_net_card) + (tx_descriptors + rx_descriptors) * sizeof(struct spider_net_descr)
with:
struct_size(card, darray, tx_descriptors + rx_descriptors)
Notice that, in this case, variable alloc_size is not necessary, hence it
is removed.
Building: allmodconfig powerpc.
This code was detected with the help of Coccinelle.
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
{
struct net_device *netdev;
struct spider_net_card *card;
- size_t alloc_size;
- alloc_size = sizeof(struct spider_net_card) +
- (tx_descriptors + rx_descriptors) * sizeof(struct spider_net_descr);
- netdev = alloc_etherdev(alloc_size);
+ netdev = alloc_etherdev(struct_size(card, darray,
+ tx_descriptors + rx_descriptors));
if (!netdev)
return NULL;