From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
"Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Subject: [PATCH net-next] tulip: eeprom: use struct_size() in kmalloc()
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2019 18:33:55 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190131003355.GA27627@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[];
};
instance = kmalloc(sizeof(struct foo) + count * sizeof(struct boo), 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 <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/dec/tulip/eeprom.c | 4 +---
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/dec/tulip/eeprom.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/dec/tulip/eeprom.c
index 1812f4916917..ba0a69b363f8 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/dec/tulip/eeprom.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/dec/tulip/eeprom.c
@@ -224,9 +224,7 @@ void tulip_parse_eeprom(struct net_device *dev)
return;
}
- mtable = kmalloc(sizeof(struct mediatable) +
- count * sizeof(struct medialeaf),
- GFP_KERNEL);
+ mtable = kmalloc(struct_size(mtable, mleaf, count), GFP_KERNEL);
if (mtable == NULL)
return; /* Horrible, impossible failure. */
last_mediatable = tp->mtable = mtable;
--
2.20.1
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2019-01-31 0:33 Gustavo A. R. Silva [this message]
2019-02-01 23:13 ` [PATCH net-next] tulip: eeprom: use struct_size() in kmalloc() David Miller
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