From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
To: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com>,
Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>,
Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>,
"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] net/sched: use struct_size() helper
Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2019 19:02:52 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190208010252.GA24824@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 = alloc(size, GFP_KERNEL)
Instead of leaving these open-coded and prone to type mistakes, we can
now use the new struct_size() helper:
size = struct_size(instance, entry, count);
instance = alloc(size, GFP_KERNEL)
This code was detected with the help of Coccinelle.
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
---
net/sched/act_pedit.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/net/sched/act_pedit.c b/net/sched/act_pedit.c
index 2b372a06b432..3663d3b615a4 100644
--- a/net/sched/act_pedit.c
+++ b/net/sched/act_pedit.c
@@ -406,7 +406,7 @@ static int tcf_pedit_dump(struct sk_buff *skb, struct tc_action *a,
struct tcf_t t;
int s;
- s = sizeof(*opt) + p->tcfp_nkeys * sizeof(struct tc_pedit_key);
+ s = struct_size(opt, keys, p->tcfp_nkeys);
/* netlink spinlocks held above us - must use ATOMIC */
opt = kzalloc(s, GFP_ATOMIC);
--
2.20.1
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2019-02-08 1:02 Gustavo A. R. Silva [this message]
2019-02-09 6:57 ` [PATCH net-next] net/sched: use struct_size() helper David Miller
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