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* [PATCH] md: raid10: Use struct_size() in kmalloc()
@ 2019-06-04 22:44 Gustavo A. R. Silva
  2019-06-06 16:51 ` Song Liu
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Gustavo A. R. Silva @ 2019-06-04 22:44 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Shaohua Li; +Cc: linux-raid, linux-kernel, 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;
   struct boo entry[];
};

instance = kmalloc(size, 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/md/raid10.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/md/raid10.c b/drivers/md/raid10.c
index aea11476fee6..3caafd433163 100644
--- a/drivers/md/raid10.c
+++ b/drivers/md/raid10.c
@@ -4780,8 +4780,7 @@ static int handle_reshape_read_error(struct mddev *mddev,
 	int idx = 0;
 	struct page **pages;
 
-	r10b = kmalloc(sizeof(*r10b) +
-	       sizeof(struct r10dev) * conf->copies, GFP_NOIO);
+	r10b = kmalloc(struct_size(r10b, devs, conf->copies), GFP_NOIO);
 	if (!r10b) {
 		set_bit(MD_RECOVERY_INTR, &mddev->recovery);
 		return -ENOMEM;
-- 
2.21.0

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