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From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
To: Arjun Vynipadath <arjun@chelsio.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	"Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Subject: [PATCH net-next] cxgb4: clip_tbl: Use struct_size() in kvzalloc()
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2019 10:44:44 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190129164444.GA27988@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 = kvzalloc(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 = kvzalloc(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/chelsio/cxgb4/clip_tbl.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/clip_tbl.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/clip_tbl.c
index 5701272aa7f7..ce28820c57c9 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/clip_tbl.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/clip_tbl.c
@@ -289,8 +289,7 @@ struct clip_tbl *t4_init_clip_tbl(unsigned int clipt_start,
 	if (clipt_size < CLIPT_MIN_HASH_BUCKETS)
 		return NULL;
 
-	ctbl = kvzalloc(sizeof(*ctbl) +
-			    clipt_size*sizeof(struct list_head), GFP_KERNEL);
+	ctbl = kvzalloc(struct_size(ctbl, hash_list, clipt_size), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!ctbl)
 		return NULL;
 
-- 
2.20.1


             reply	other threads:[~2019-01-29 16:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-01-29 16:44 Gustavo A. R. Silva [this message]
2019-01-29 18:57 ` [PATCH net-next] cxgb4: clip_tbl: Use struct_size() in kvzalloc() David Miller

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