| Message ID | 20190115231429.GA25525@embeddedor |
|---|---|
| State | Accepted |
| Delegated to: | David Miller |
| Headers | show |
| Series | [net-next] mlxsw: spectrum_nve: Use struct_size() in kzalloc() | expand |
On Tue, Jan 15, 2019 at 05:14:29PM -0600, Gustavo A. R. Silva 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[]; > }; > > 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> Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>
From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@embeddedor.com> Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2019 17:14:29 -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 = 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> Applied.
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);
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(-)