* [PATCH net-next] cxgb4/l2t: Use struct_size() in kvzalloc()
@ 2019-01-15 21:44 Gustavo A. R. Silva
2019-01-15 21:44 ` Gustavo A. R. Silva
2019-01-17 5:11 ` David Miller
0 siblings, 2 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Gustavo A. R. Silva @ 2019-01-15 21:44 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Arjun Vynipadath, David S. Miller
Cc: netdev, 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;
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/l2t.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/l2t.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/l2t.c
index 4852febbfec3..1a407d3c1d67 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/l2t.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/l2t.c
@@ -646,7 +646,7 @@ struct l2t_data *t4_init_l2t(unsigned int l2t_start, unsigned int l2t_end)
if (l2t_size < L2T_MIN_HASH_BUCKETS)
return NULL;
- d = kvzalloc(sizeof(*d) + l2t_size * sizeof(struct l2t_entry), GFP_KERNEL);
+ d = kvzalloc(struct_size(d, l2tab, l2t_size), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!d)
return NULL;
--
2.20.1
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* [PATCH net-next] cxgb4/l2t: Use struct_size() in kvzalloc()
2019-01-15 21:44 [PATCH net-next] cxgb4/l2t: Use struct_size() in kvzalloc() Gustavo A. R. Silva
@ 2019-01-15 21:44 ` Gustavo A. R. Silva
2019-01-17 5:11 ` David Miller
1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Gustavo A. R. Silva @ 2019-01-15 21:44 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Arjun Vynipadath, David S. Miller
Cc: netdev, 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;
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/l2t.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/l2t.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/l2t.c
index 4852febbfec3..1a407d3c1d67 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/l2t.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/l2t.c
@@ -646,7 +646,7 @@ struct l2t_data *t4_init_l2t(unsigned int l2t_start, unsigned int l2t_end)
if (l2t_size < L2T_MIN_HASH_BUCKETS)
return NULL;
- d = kvzalloc(sizeof(*d) + l2t_size * sizeof(struct l2t_entry), GFP_KERNEL);
+ d = kvzalloc(struct_size(d, l2tab, l2t_size), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!d)
return NULL;
--
2.20.1
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* Re: [PATCH net-next] cxgb4/l2t: Use struct_size() in kvzalloc()
2019-01-15 21:44 [PATCH net-next] cxgb4/l2t: Use struct_size() in kvzalloc() Gustavo A. R. Silva
2019-01-15 21:44 ` Gustavo A. R. Silva
@ 2019-01-17 5:11 ` David Miller
1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: David Miller @ 2019-01-17 5:11 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: gustavo; +Cc: arjun, netdev, linux-kernel
From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2019 15:44:52 -0600
> 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>
Applied.
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