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From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
To: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>,
	"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] wan: wanxl: use struct_size() in kzalloc()
Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2019 21:16:48 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190208031648.GA3022@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:

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


             reply	other threads:[~2019-02-08  3:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-02-08  3:16 Gustavo A. R. Silva [this message]
2019-02-09  6:58 ` [PATCH net-next] wan: wanxl: use struct_size() in kzalloc() David Miller

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