From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
To: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-input@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
"Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Subject: [PATCH] Input: evdev - use struct_size() in kzalloc() and vzalloc()
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2019 09:37:38 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190221153738.GA17825@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;
struct boo entry[];
};
size = sizeof(struct foo) + count * sizeof(struct boo);
instance = kzalloc(size, 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);
Notice that, in this case, variable size is not necessary, hence
it is removed.
This code was detected with the help of Coccinelle.
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
---
drivers/input/evdev.c | 7 +++----
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/input/evdev.c b/drivers/input/evdev.c
index f48369d6f3a0..ee8dd8b1b09e 100644
--- a/drivers/input/evdev.c
+++ b/drivers/input/evdev.c
@@ -503,14 +503,13 @@ static int evdev_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
{
struct evdev *evdev = container_of(inode->i_cdev, struct evdev, cdev);
unsigned int bufsize = evdev_compute_buffer_size(evdev->handle.dev);
- unsigned int size = sizeof(struct evdev_client) +
- bufsize * sizeof(struct input_event);
struct evdev_client *client;
int error;
- client = kzalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOWARN);
+ client = kzalloc(struct_size(client, buffer, bufsize),
+ GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOWARN);
if (!client)
- client = vzalloc(size);
+ client = vzalloc(struct_size(client, buffer, bufsize));
if (!client)
return -ENOMEM;
--
2.20.1
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2019-04-03 17:51 ` [PATCH] Input: evdev - use struct_size() in kzalloc() and vzalloc() Dmitry Torokhov
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