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To:     Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>,
        Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@netronome.com>,
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From:   "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
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Date:   Thu, 31 Jan 2019 11:15:05 -0600
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Hi Joe,

On 1/31/19 11:11 AM, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Wed, 2019-01-30 at 18:38 -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[];
>> };
>>
>> 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.
> 
> Might be useful to augment the script to include cases
> where the computed size is saved to a temporary and
> that temporary is used ala:
> 

Yep. That's already on my list.

> https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10782453/
> 
> On Sat, 2019-01-26 at 20:42 +0800, YueHaibing wrote:
>> Use kmemdup rather than duplicating its implementation
> []
>> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/iwl-nvm-parse.c b/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/iwl-nvm-parse.c
> []
>> @@ -1196,13 +1196,9 @@ iwl_parse_nvm_mcc_info(struct device *dev, const struct iwl_cfg *cfg,
>>  	regd_to_copy = sizeof(struct ieee80211_regdomain) +
>>  		valid_rules * sizeof(struct ieee80211_reg_rule);
>> -	copy_rd = kzalloc(regd_to_copy, GFP_KERNEL);
>> -	if (!copy_rd) {
>> +	copy_rd = kmemdup(regd, regd_to_copy, GFP_KERNEL);
> 
> This should probably be
> 
> 	copy_rd = kmemdup(regd, struct_size(regd, reg_rules, valid_rules),
> 			  GFP_KERNEL);
> 

I agree.

Thanks
--
Gustavo