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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


             reply	other threads:[~2019-01-31  0:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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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