[PATCH net-next] mlxsw: spectrum_router: Use struct_size() in kzalloc()

[PATCH net-next] mlxsw: spectrum_router: Use struct_size() in kzalloc()

[Gustavo A. R. Silva]

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[];
};

size = sizeof(struct foo) + count * sizeof(struct boo);
instance = kzalloc(size, 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)

Notice that, in this case, variable alloc_size is not necessary, hence
it is removed.

This code was detected with the help of Coccinelle.

Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
---
 .../net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum_router.c    | 12 ++++--------
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum_router.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum_router.c
index 230e1f6e192b..e3a3535f9f23 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum_router.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum_router.c
@@ -3813,13 +3813,11 @@ mlxsw_sp_nexthop4_group_create(struct mlxsw_sp *mlxsw_sp, struct fib_info *fi)
 	struct mlxsw_sp_nexthop_group *nh_grp;
 	struct mlxsw_sp_nexthop *nh;
 	struct fib_nh *fib_nh;
-	size_t alloc_size;
 	int i;
 	int err;
 
-	alloc_size = sizeof(*nh_grp) +
-		     fi->fib_nhs * sizeof(struct mlxsw_sp_nexthop);
-	nh_grp = kzalloc(alloc_size, GFP_KERNEL);
+	nh_grp = kzalloc(struct_size(nh_grp, nexthops, fi->fib_nhs),
+			 GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!nh_grp)
 		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
 	nh_grp->priv = fi;
@@ -5045,13 +5043,11 @@ mlxsw_sp_nexthop6_group_create(struct mlxsw_sp *mlxsw_sp,
 	struct mlxsw_sp_nexthop_group *nh_grp;
 	struct mlxsw_sp_rt6 *mlxsw_sp_rt6;
 	struct mlxsw_sp_nexthop *nh;
-	size_t alloc_size;
 	int i = 0;
 	int err;
 
-	alloc_size = sizeof(*nh_grp) +
-		     fib6_entry->nrt6 * sizeof(struct mlxsw_sp_nexthop);
-	nh_grp = kzalloc(alloc_size, GFP_KERNEL);
+	nh_grp = kzalloc(struct_size(nh_grp, nexthops, fib6_entry->nrt6),
+			 GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!nh_grp)
 		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&nh_grp->fib_list);
-- 
2.20.1

Re: [PATCH net-next] mlxsw: spectrum_router: Use struct_size() in kzalloc()

[Jiri Pirko]

Fri, Feb 08, 2019 at 04:42:41AM CET, gustavo@embeddedor.com 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[];
>};
>
>size = sizeof(struct foo) + count * sizeof(struct boo);
>instance = kzalloc(size, 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)
>
>Notice that, in this case, variable alloc_size is not necessary, hence
>it is removed.
>
>This code was detected with the help of Coccinelle.
>
>Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>

Acked-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>

Re: [PATCH net-next] mlxsw: spectrum_router: Use struct_size() in kzalloc()

[David Miller]

From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2019 21:42:41 -0600

> 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[];
> };
> 
> size = sizeof(struct foo) + count * sizeof(struct boo);
> instance = kzalloc(size, 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)
> 
> Notice that, in this case, variable alloc_size is not necessary, hence
> it is removed.
> 
> This code was detected with the help of Coccinelle.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>

Applied.