From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
To: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
"Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Subject: [PATCH] powerpc/spufs: use struct_size() in kmalloc()
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2019 12:37:20 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190108183720.GA14238@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 = kmalloc(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 = 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>
---
arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/file.c | 5 ++---
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/file.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/file.c
index ae8123edddc6..48c2477e7e2a 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/file.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/file.c
@@ -2338,9 +2338,8 @@ static int spufs_switch_log_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
goto out;
}
- ctx->switch_log = kmalloc(sizeof(struct switch_log) +
- SWITCH_LOG_BUFSIZE * sizeof(struct switch_log_entry),
- GFP_KERNEL);
+ ctx->switch_log = kmalloc(struct_size(ctx->switch_log, log,
+ SWITCH_LOG_BUFSIZE), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!ctx->switch_log) {
rc = -ENOMEM;
--
2.20.1
next reply other threads:[~2019-01-08 19:03 UTC|newest]
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2019-01-08 18:37 Gustavo A. R. Silva [this message]
2019-01-24 3:40 ` powerpc/spufs: use struct_size() in kmalloc() Michael Ellerman
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