[PATCH][next] mwifiex: use struct_size() in kzalloc()

[PATCH][next] mwifiex: use struct_size() in kzalloc()

[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[];
};

size = sizeof(struct foo) + count * sizeof(struct boo);
instance = kzalloc(size, 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)

Notice that, in this case, variable regd_size is not necessary,
hence it is removed.

This code was detected with the help of Coccinelle.

Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/sta_cmdresp.c | 7 ++-----
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/sta_cmdresp.c b/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/sta_cmdresp.c
index 69e3b624adbb..24b33e20e7a9 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/sta_cmdresp.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/sta_cmdresp.c
@@ -1025,17 +1025,14 @@ mwifiex_create_custom_regdomain(struct mwifiex_private *priv,
 	struct ieee80211_regdomain *regd;
 	struct ieee80211_reg_rule *rule;
 	bool new_rule;
-	int regd_size, idx, freq, prev_freq = 0;
+	int idx, freq, prev_freq = 0;
 	u32 bw, prev_bw = 0;
 	u8 chflags, prev_chflags = 0, valid_rules = 0;
 
 	if (WARN_ON_ONCE(num_chan > NL80211_MAX_SUPP_REG_RULES))
 		return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
 
-	regd_size = sizeof(struct ieee80211_regdomain) +
-		    num_chan * sizeof(struct ieee80211_reg_rule);
-
-	regd = kzalloc(regd_size, GFP_KERNEL);
+	regd = kzalloc(struct_size(regd, reg_rules, num_chan), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!regd)
 		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
 
-- 
2.21.0

Re: [PATCH][next] mwifiex: use struct_size() in kzalloc()

[Kalle Valo]

"Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@embeddedor.com> wrote:

> 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[];
> };
> 
> size = sizeof(struct foo) + count * sizeof(struct boo);
> instance = kzalloc(size, 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)
> 
> Notice that, in this case, variable regd_size is not necessary,
> hence it is removed.
> 
> This code was detected with the help of Coccinelle.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>

Patch applied to wireless-drivers-next.git, thanks.

ae187ba91541 mwifiex: use struct_size() in kzalloc()

-- 
https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10884249/

https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/documentation/submittingpatches