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* [PATCH] s390/hypfs: Use struct_size() in kzalloc()
@ 2019-01-09 17:35 Gustavo A. R. Silva
  2019-01-10  6:59 ` Heiko Carstens
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Gustavo A. R. Silva @ 2019-01-09 17:35 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Martin Schwidefsky, Heiko Carstens
  Cc: linux-s390, linux-kernel, 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;
    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>
---
 arch/s390/hypfs/hypfs_diag0c.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/s390/hypfs/hypfs_diag0c.c b/arch/s390/hypfs/hypfs_diag0c.c
index cebf05150cc1..9c398bf0ddc6 100644
--- a/arch/s390/hypfs/hypfs_diag0c.c
+++ b/arch/s390/hypfs/hypfs_diag0c.c
@@ -54,8 +54,7 @@ static void *diag0c_store(unsigned int *count)
 	if (!cpu_vec)
 		goto fail_put_online_cpus;
 	/* Note: Diag 0c needs 8 byte alignment and real storage */
-	diag0c_data = kzalloc(sizeof(struct hypfs_diag0c_hdr) +
-			      cpu_count * sizeof(struct hypfs_diag0c_entry),
+	diag0c_data = kzalloc(struct_size(diag0c_data, entry, cpu_count),
 			      GFP_KERNEL | GFP_DMA);
 	if (!diag0c_data)
 		goto fail_kfree_cpu_vec;
-- 
2.20.1


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* Re: [PATCH] s390/hypfs: Use struct_size() in kzalloc()
  2019-01-09 17:35 [PATCH] s390/hypfs: Use struct_size() in kzalloc() Gustavo A. R. Silva
@ 2019-01-10  6:59 ` Heiko Carstens
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Heiko Carstens @ 2019-01-10  6:59 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Gustavo A. R. Silva; +Cc: Martin Schwidefsky, linux-s390, linux-kernel

On Wed, Jan 09, 2019 at 11:35:41AM -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;
>     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>
> ---
>  arch/s390/hypfs/hypfs_diag0c.c | 3 +--
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

Applied, thanks!


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