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From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
To: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: linux-block@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	"Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@embeddedor.com>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Subject: [PATCH] block: bio: Use struct_size() in kmalloc()
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2019 10:04:12 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190610150412.GA8430@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 bio_map_data {
	...
        struct iovec iov[];
};

instance = kmalloc(sizeof(sizeof(struct bio_map_data) + sizeof(struct iovec) *
                          count, GFP_KERNEL);

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

instance = kmalloc(struct_size(instance, iov, count), GFP_KERNEL);

This code was detected with the help of Coccinelle.

Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
---
 block/bio.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/block/bio.c b/block/bio.c
index 683cbb40f051..4bcdcd3f63f4 100644
--- a/block/bio.c
+++ b/block/bio.c
@@ -1120,8 +1120,7 @@ static struct bio_map_data *bio_alloc_map_data(struct iov_iter *data,
 	if (data->nr_segs > UIO_MAXIOV)
 		return NULL;
 
-	bmd = kmalloc(sizeof(struct bio_map_data) +
-		       sizeof(struct iovec) * data->nr_segs, gfp_mask);
+	bmd = kmalloc(struct_size(bmd, iov, data->nr_segs), gfp_mask);
 	if (!bmd)
 		return NULL;
 	memcpy(bmd->iov, data->iov, sizeof(struct iovec) * data->nr_segs);
-- 
2.21.0


             reply	other threads:[~2019-06-10 15:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-06-10 15:04 Gustavo A. R. Silva [this message]
2019-06-10 17:53 ` [PATCH] block: bio: Use struct_size() in kmalloc() Kees Cook
2019-06-15  7:45 ` Jens Axboe
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2019-05-17  9:12 [PATCH] block: bio: use " xiaolinkui
2019-05-17 17:18 ` Chaitanya Kulkarni
2019-05-17 21:17 ` Jens Axboe
2019-05-17 22:59   ` Jens Axboe
2019-05-18  0:43     ` Chaitanya Kulkarni
2019-05-18  4:16       ` Jens Axboe

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