From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" Subject: [PATCH] mm: memcontrol: use struct_size() in kmalloc() Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2019 12:37:26 -0600 Message-ID: <20190104183726.GA6374@embeddedor> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Johannes Weiner , Michal Hocko , Vladimir Davydov Cc: cgroups@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Gustavo A. R. Silva" 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 = kmalloc(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 = kmalloc(struct_size(instance, entry, count), GFP_KERNEL); This code was detected with the help of Coccinelle. Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva --- mm/memcontrol.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c index af7f18b32389..ad256cf7da47 100644 --- a/mm/memcontrol.c +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c @@ -3626,8 +3626,7 @@ static int __mem_cgroup_usage_register_event(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, size = thresholds->primary ? thresholds->primary->size + 1 : 1; /* Allocate memory for new array of thresholds */ - new = kmalloc(sizeof(*new) + size * sizeof(struct mem_cgroup_threshold), - GFP_KERNEL); + new = kmalloc(struct_size(new, entries, size), GFP_KERNEL); if (!new) { ret = -ENOMEM; goto unlock; -- 2.20.1