From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.com>
Cc: linux-serial@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
"Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Subject: [PATCH] serial: max310x: Use struct_size() in devm_kzalloc()
Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2019 15:39:13 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190104213913.GA21248@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;
void *entry[];
};
instance = devm_kzalloc(dev, sizeof(struct foo) + sizeof(void *) * count, GFP_KERNEL);
Instead of leaving these open-coded and prone to type mistakes, we can
now use the new struct_size() helper:
instance = devm_kzalloc(dev, struct_size(instance, entry, count), GFP_KERNEL);
This code was detected with the help of Coccinelle.
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
---
drivers/tty/serial/max310x.c | 3 +--
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/max310x.c b/drivers/tty/serial/max310x.c
index 4f479841769a..1d700a8ab517 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/serial/max310x.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/max310x.c
@@ -1197,8 +1197,7 @@ static int max310x_probe(struct device *dev, struct max310x_devtype *devtype,
return PTR_ERR(regmap);
/* Alloc port structure */
- s = devm_kzalloc(dev, sizeof(*s) +
- sizeof(struct max310x_one) * devtype->nr, GFP_KERNEL);
+ s = devm_kzalloc(dev, struct_size(s, p, devtype->nr), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!s) {
dev_err(dev, "Error allocating port structure\n");
return -ENOMEM;
--
2.20.1
next reply other threads:[~2019-01-04 21:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-01-04 21:39 Gustavo A. R. Silva [this message]
2019-03-07 11:03 ` [PATCH] serial: max310x: Use struct_size() in devm_kzalloc() Jan Kundrát
2019-03-07 11:03 ` Jan Kundrát
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