[PATCH] dmaengine: bcm2835: Use struct_size() in kzalloc()

From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
To: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>,
	Vinod Koul <vkoul@kernel.org>, Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net>,
	Stefan Wahren <stefan.wahren@i2se.com>,
	Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>,
	Ray Jui <rjui@broadcom.com>,
	Scott Branden <sbranden@broadcom.com>,
	bcm-kernel-feedback-list@broadcom.com
Cc: dmaengine@vger.kernel.org,
	"Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@embeddedor.com>,
	linux-rpi-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] dmaengine: bcm2835: Use struct_size() in kzalloc()
Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2019 12:30:34 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190104183034.GA5364@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/dma/bcm2835-dma.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/dma/bcm2835-dma.c b/drivers/dma/bcm2835-dma.c
index 1a44c8086d77..7beec403c2c9 100644
--- a/drivers/dma/bcm2835-dma.c
+++ b/drivers/dma/bcm2835-dma.c
@@ -312,8 +312,7 @@ static struct bcm2835_desc *bcm2835_dma_create_cb_chain(
 		return NULL;
 
 	/* allocate and setup the descriptor. */
-	d = kzalloc(sizeof(*d) + frames * sizeof(struct bcm2835_cb_entry),
-		    gfp);
+	d = kzalloc(struct_size(d, cb_list, frames), gfp);
 	if (!d)
 		return NULL;
 
-- 
2.20.1


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