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* [PATCH] dmaengine: dma-jz4780: Use struct_size() in devm_kzalloc()
@ 2018-12-24  6:52 Gustavo A. R. Silva
  2019-01-07 12:39 ` Vinod Koul
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Gustavo A. R. Silva @ 2018-12-24  6:52 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Zubair Lutfullah Kakakhel, Dan Williams, Vinod Koul
  Cc: dmaengine, 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;
    void *entry[];
};

instance = devm_kzalloc(dev, 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 = devm_kzalloc(dev, struct_size(instance, entry, count), GFP_KERNEL);

This issue was detected with the help of Coccinelle.

Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
---
 drivers/dma/dma-jz4780.c | 5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/dma/dma-jz4780.c b/drivers/dma/dma-jz4780.c
index a8b6225faa12..9ce0a386225b 100644
--- a/drivers/dma/dma-jz4780.c
+++ b/drivers/dma/dma-jz4780.c
@@ -838,9 +838,8 @@ static int jz4780_dma_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 	if (!soc_data)
 		return -EINVAL;
 
-	jzdma = devm_kzalloc(dev, sizeof(*jzdma)
-				+ sizeof(*jzdma->chan) * soc_data->nb_channels,
-				GFP_KERNEL);
+	jzdma = devm_kzalloc(dev, struct_size(jzdma, chan,
+			     soc_data->nb_channels), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!jzdma)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
-- 
2.20.1


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