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Bottomley" , "Martin K. Petersen" , Kees Cook , "Gustavo A. R. Silva" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (open list), linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org (open list:KERNEL HARDENING (not covered by other areas):Keyword:\b__counted_by(_le|_be|_ptr)?\b) Subject: [PATCHv2] scsi: st: use kzalloc_array() Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2026 14:53:45 -0700 Message-ID: <20260703215345.253901-1-rosenp@gmail.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.55.0 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Merge allocations to simpily memory management with kzalloc_array(). No need to kfree separately. Add __counted_by for extra runtime analysis. Move counting variable assignment after allocation as kzalloc_flex() does this with newer compilers. Signed-off-by: Rosen Penev --- v2: remove the kfree and add a description. drivers/scsi/st.c | 13 +++---------- drivers/scsi/st.h | 3 ++- 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/scsi/st.c b/drivers/scsi/st.c index f1c3c4946637..55238f23f743 100644 --- a/drivers/scsi/st.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/st.c @@ -149,7 +149,7 @@ static struct st_dev_parm { mode counts */ static const char *st_formats[] = { "", "r", "k", "s", "l", "t", "o", "u", - "m", "v", "p", "x", "a", "y", "q", "z"}; + "m", "v", "p", "x", "a", "y", "q", "z"}; /* The default definitions have been moved to st_options.h */ @@ -3973,21 +3973,15 @@ static struct st_buffer *new_tape_buffer(int max_sg) { struct st_buffer *tb; - tb = kzalloc_obj(struct st_buffer); + tb = kzalloc_flex(*tb, reserved_pages, max_sg); if (!tb) { printk(KERN_NOTICE "st: Can't allocate new tape buffer.\n"); return NULL; } - tb->frp_segs = 0; tb->use_sg = max_sg; + tb->frp_segs = 0; tb->buffer_size = 0; - tb->reserved_pages = kzalloc_objs(struct page *, max_sg); - if (!tb->reserved_pages) { - kfree(tb); - return NULL; - } - return tb; } @@ -4533,7 +4527,6 @@ static void scsi_tape_release(struct kref *kref) if (tpnt->buffer) { normalize_buffer(tpnt->buffer); - kfree(tpnt->buffer->reserved_pages); kfree(tpnt->buffer); } diff --git a/drivers/scsi/st.h b/drivers/scsi/st.h index 0d7c4b8c2c8a..759f4c43d563 100644 --- a/drivers/scsi/st.h +++ b/drivers/scsi/st.h @@ -45,7 +45,6 @@ struct st_buffer { int syscall_result; struct st_request *last_SRpnt; struct st_cmdstatus cmdstat; - struct page **reserved_pages; int reserved_page_order; struct page **mapped_pages; struct rq_map_data map_data; @@ -53,6 +52,8 @@ struct st_buffer { unsigned short use_sg; /* zero or max number of s/g segments for this adapter */ unsigned short sg_segs; /* number of segments in s/g list */ unsigned short frp_segs; /* number of buffer segments */ + + struct page *reserved_pages[] __counted_by(use_sg); }; /* The tape mode definition */ -- 2.55.0