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[];
};
instance = kzalloc(sizeof(struct foo) + count * sizeof(struct boo), GFP_KERNEL);
Instead of leaving these open-coded and prone to type mistakes, we can now
use the new struct_size() helper:
instance = kzalloc(struct_size(instance, entry, count), GFP_KERNEL);
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>
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| netfilter | ||
| Kconfig | ||
| Makefile | ||
| README | ||
| TODO | ||
| af_decnet.c | ||
| dn_dev.c | ||
| dn_fib.c | ||
| dn_neigh.c | ||
| dn_nsp_in.c | ||
| dn_nsp_out.c | ||
| dn_route.c | ||
| dn_rules.c | ||
| dn_table.c | ||
| dn_timer.c | ||
| sysctl_net_decnet.c | ||
README
Linux DECnet Project
======================
The documentation for this kernel subsystem is available in the
Documentation/networking subdirectory of this distribution and also
on line at http://www.chygwyn.com/DECnet/
Steve Whitehouse <SteveW@ACM.org>