[PATCH net-next] wan: wanxl: use struct_size() in kzalloc()

[PATCH net-next] wan: wanxl: 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 = alloc(size, GFP_KERNEL)

Instead of leaving these open-coded and prone to type mistakes, we can
now use the new struct_size() helper:

instance = alloc(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>
---
 drivers/net/wan/wanxl.c | 5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wan/wanxl.c b/drivers/net/wan/wanxl.c
index d573a57bc301..459ce52a0a4d 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wan/wanxl.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wan/wanxl.c
@@ -565,7 +565,7 @@ static int wanxl_pci_init_one(struct pci_dev *pdev,
 	u32 plx_phy;		/* PLX PCI base address */
 	u32 mem_phy;		/* memory PCI base addr */
 	u8 __iomem *mem;	/* memory virtual base addr */
-	int i, ports, alloc_size;
+	int i, ports;
 
 #ifndef MODULE
 	pr_info_once("%s\n", version);
@@ -601,8 +601,7 @@ static int wanxl_pci_init_one(struct pci_dev *pdev,
 	default: ports = 4;
 	}
 
-	alloc_size = sizeof(struct card) + ports * sizeof(struct port);
-	card = kzalloc(alloc_size, GFP_KERNEL);
+	card = kzalloc(struct_size(card, ports, ports), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (card == NULL) {
 		pci_release_regions(pdev);
 		pci_disable_device(pdev);
-- 
2.20.1

Re: [PATCH net-next] wan: wanxl: use struct_size() in kzalloc()

[David Miller]

From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2019 21:16:48 -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 = alloc(size, GFP_KERNEL)
> 
> Instead of leaving these open-coded and prone to type mistakes, we can
> now use the new struct_size() helper:
> 
> instance = alloc(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.