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* [PATCH net-next] mlxsw: spectrum_acl_bloom_filter: use struct_size() in kzalloc()
@ 2019-01-15 23:05 Gustavo A. R. Silva
  2019-01-16 17:12 ` David Miller
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Gustavo A. R. Silva @ 2019-01-15 23:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Jiri Pirko, Ido Schimmel, David S. Miller
  Cc: netdev, 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 issue was detected with the help of Coccinelle.

Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
---
 .../net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum_acl_bloom_filter.c   | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum_acl_bloom_filter.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum_acl_bloom_filter.c
index 505b87846acc..f5c381dcb015 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum_acl_bloom_filter.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum_acl_bloom_filter.c
@@ -234,8 +234,8 @@ mlxsw_sp_acl_bf_init(struct mlxsw_sp *mlxsw_sp, unsigned int num_erp_banks)
 	 * is 2^ACL_MAX_BF_LOG
 	 */
 	bf_bank_size = 1 << MLXSW_CORE_RES_GET(mlxsw_sp->core, ACL_MAX_BF_LOG);
-	bf = kzalloc(sizeof(*bf) + bf_bank_size * num_erp_banks *
-		     sizeof(*bf->refcnt), GFP_KERNEL);
+	bf = kzalloc(struct_size(bf, refcnt, bf_bank_size * num_erp_banks),
+		     GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!bf)
 		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
 
-- 
2.17.0


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* Re: [PATCH net-next] mlxsw: spectrum_acl_bloom_filter: use struct_size() in kzalloc()
  2019-01-15 23:05 [PATCH net-next] mlxsw: spectrum_acl_bloom_filter: use struct_size() in kzalloc() Gustavo A. R. Silva
@ 2019-01-16 17:12 ` David Miller
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: David Miller @ 2019-01-16 17:12 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: gustavo; +Cc: jiri, idosch, netdev, linux-kernel

From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2019 17:05:39 -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;
>     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 issue was detected with the help of Coccinelle.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>
> Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>

Applied.

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