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From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
To: Ariel Elior <aelior@marvell.com>,
	Sudarsana Kalluru <skalluru@marvell.com>,
	GR-everest-linux-l2@marvell.com,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	"Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Subject: [PATCH net-next] bnx2x: Use struct_size() in kzalloc()
Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2019 21:29:10 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190208032910.GA3436@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;
    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 fsz 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>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_vfpf.c | 8 ++------
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_vfpf.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_vfpf.c
index 8e0a317b31f7..a9bdc21873d3 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_vfpf.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_vfpf.c
@@ -1654,13 +1654,9 @@ static int bnx2x_vf_mbx_macvlan_list(struct bnx2x *bp,
 {
 	int i, j;
 	struct bnx2x_vf_mac_vlan_filters *fl = NULL;
-	size_t fsz;
 
-	fsz = tlv->n_mac_vlan_filters *
-	      sizeof(struct bnx2x_vf_mac_vlan_filter) +
-	      sizeof(struct bnx2x_vf_mac_vlan_filters);
-
-	fl = kzalloc(fsz, GFP_KERNEL);
+	fl = kzalloc(struct_size(fl, filters, tlv->n_mac_vlan_filters),
+		     GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!fl)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
-- 
2.20.1


             reply	other threads:[~2019-02-08  3:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-02-08  3:29 Gustavo A. R. Silva [this message]
2019-02-09  6:58 ` [PATCH net-next] bnx2x: Use struct_size() in kzalloc() David Miller

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