From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
To: "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@linux.ibm.com>,
"Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
"Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Subject: [PATCH] scsi: mvsas: use struct_size() in kzalloc()
Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2019 15:47:04 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190104214704.GA22286@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 = kzalloc(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 = kzalloc(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/scsi/mvsas/mv_init.c | 6 +++---
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/scsi/mvsas/mv_init.c b/drivers/scsi/mvsas/mv_init.c
index 030d911ee374..cd6ba7ed0ab4 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/mvsas/mv_init.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/mvsas/mv_init.c
@@ -366,9 +366,9 @@ static struct mvs_info *mvs_pci_alloc(struct pci_dev *pdev,
struct mvs_info *mvi = NULL;
struct sas_ha_struct *sha = SHOST_TO_SAS_HA(shost);
- mvi = kzalloc(sizeof(*mvi) +
- (1L << mvs_chips[ent->driver_data].slot_width) *
- sizeof(struct mvs_slot_info), GFP_KERNEL);
+ mvi = kzalloc(struct_size(mvi, slot_info,
+ (1L << mvs_chips[ent->driver_data].slot_width)),
+ GFP_KERNEL);
if (!mvi)
return NULL;
--
2.20.1
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