Re: [PATCH 17/26] IB/ocrdma: Use kmalloc_array() in ocrdma_create_srq()

Devesh Sharma
2017-03-08T15:07:52Z

On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 6:47 PM, SF Markus Elfring
<elfring@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> From: Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
> Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2017 08:45:31 +0100
>
> * A multiplication for the size determination of a memory allocation
> indicated that an array data structure should be processed.
> Thus use the corresponding function "kmalloc_array".
>
> This issue was detected by using the Coccinelle software.
>
> * Replace the specification of a data type by a pointer dereference
> to make the corresponding size determination a bit safer according to
> the Linux coding style convention.
>
> Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
> ---
> drivers/infiniband/hw/ocrdma/ocrdma_verbs.c | 5 +++--
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/ocrdma/ocrdma_verbs.c b/drivers/infiniband/hw/ocrdma/ocrdma_verbs.c
> index bc9fb144e57b..ef670ac1cbe9 100644
> --- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/ocrdma/ocrdma_verbs.c
> +++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/ocrdma/ocrdma_verbs.c
> @@ -1910,8 +1910,9 @@ struct ib_srq *ocrdma_create_srq(struct ib_pd *ibpd,
>
> srq->bit_fields_len = (srq->rq.max_cnt / 32) +
> (srq->rq.max_cnt % 32 ? 1 : 0);
> - srq->idx_bit_fields =
> - kmalloc(srq->bit_fields_len * sizeof(u32), GFP_KERNEL);

Lets stick to kmalloc here?

> + srq->idx_bit_fields = kmalloc_array(srq->bit_fields_len,
> + sizeof(*srq->idx_bit_fields),
> + GFP_KERNEL);
> if (srq->idx_bit_fields == NULL)
> goto arm_err;
> memset(srq->idx_bit_fields, 0xff,
> --
> 2.12.0
>