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Gustavo A. R. Silva authored
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 bio_map_data { ... struct iovec iov[]; }; instance = kmalloc(sizeof(sizeof(struct bio_map_data) + sizeof(struct iovec) * count, GFP_KERNEL); Instead of leaving these open-coded and prone to type mistakes, we can now use the new struct_size() helper: instance = kmalloc(struct_size(instance, iov, count), GFP_KERNEL); This code was detected with the help of Coccinelle. Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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