From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
"Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Subject: [PATCH] uwb: use struct_size() in kzalloc()
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2019 10:27:00 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190108162700.GA27100@embeddedor> (raw)
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;
void *entry[];
};
instance = kzalloc(sizeof(struct foo) + sizeof(void *) * count, 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>
---
drivers/uwb/drp-ie.c | 5 ++---
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/uwb/drp-ie.c b/drivers/uwb/drp-ie.c
index 1d2a939cfcf8..ed993e363472 100644
--- a/drivers/uwb/drp-ie.c
+++ b/drivers/uwb/drp-ie.c
@@ -125,9 +125,8 @@ static struct uwb_ie_drp *uwb_drp_ie_alloc(void)
{
struct uwb_ie_drp *drp_ie;
- drp_ie = kzalloc(sizeof(struct uwb_ie_drp) +
- UWB_NUM_ZONES * sizeof(struct uwb_drp_alloc),
- GFP_KERNEL);
+ drp_ie = kzalloc(struct_size(drp_ie, allocs, UWB_NUM_ZONES),
+ GFP_KERNEL);
if (drp_ie)
drp_ie->hdr.element_id = UWB_IE_DRP;
return drp_ie;
--
2.20.1
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