From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
To: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>,
Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.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] mlxsw: spectrum_nve: Use struct_size() in kzalloc()
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2019 17:14:29 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190115231429.GA25525@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 = kzalloc(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 = kzalloc(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/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum_nve.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum_nve.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum_nve.c
index fb1c48c698f2..9019548d731b 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum_nve.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum_nve.c
@@ -267,8 +267,8 @@ mlxsw_sp_nve_mc_record_create(struct mlxsw_sp *mlxsw_sp,
struct mlxsw_sp_nve_mc_record *mc_record;
int err;
- mc_record = kzalloc(sizeof(*mc_record) + num_max_entries *
- sizeof(struct mlxsw_sp_nve_mc_entry), GFP_KERNEL);
+ mc_record = kzalloc(struct_size(mc_record, entries, num_max_entries),
+ GFP_KERNEL);
if (!mc_record)
return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
--
2.20.1
next reply other threads:[~2019-01-15 23:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-01-15 23:14 Gustavo A. R. Silva [this message]
2019-01-16 7:13 ` [PATCH net-next] mlxsw: spectrum_nve: Use struct_size() in kzalloc() Ido Schimmel
2019-01-16 17:12 ` David Miller
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