There is a regular need in the kernel to provide a way to declare having
a dynamically sized set of trailing elements in a structure. Kernel code
should always use “flexible array members”[1] for these cases. The older
style of one-element or zero-length arrays should no longer be used[2].
Refactor the code according to the use of a flexible-array member in
struct ice_res_tracker, instead of a one-element array and use the
struct_size() helper to calculate the size for the allocations.
Also, notice that the code below suggests that, currently, two too many
bytes are being allocated with devm_kzalloc(), as the total number of
entries (pf->irq_tracker->num_entries) for pf->irq_tracker->list[] is
_vectors_ and sizeof(*pf->irq_tracker) also includes the size of the
one-element array _list_ in struct ice_res_tracker.
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_main.c:3511:
3511 /* populate SW interrupts pool with number of OS granted IRQs. */
3512 pf->num_avail_sw_msix = (u16)vectors;
3513 pf->irq_tracker->num_entries = (u16)vectors;
3514 pf->irq_tracker->end = pf->irq_tracker->num_entries;
With this change, the right amount of dynamic memory is now allocated
because, contrary to one-element arrays which occupy at least as much
space as a single object of the type, flexible-array members don't
occupy such space in the containing structure.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexible_array_member
[2] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v5.9-rc1/process/deprecated.html#zero-length-and-one-element-arrays
Built-tested-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Tony Brelinski <tonyx.brelinski@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com>
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