| Message ID | 20190131005148.GA31194@embeddedor |
|---|---|
| State | Accepted |
| Delegated to: | David Miller |
| Headers | show |
| Series | [net-next] ipv4: fib: use struct_size() in kzalloc() | expand |
From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@embeddedor.com> Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2019 18:51:48 -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 code was detected with the help of Coccinelle. > > Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com> Applied.
diff --git a/net/ipv4/fib_semantics.c b/net/ipv4/fib_semantics.c index 5022bc63863a..8e185b5a2bf6 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/fib_semantics.c +++ b/net/ipv4/fib_semantics.c @@ -1072,7 +1072,7 @@ struct fib_info *fib_create_info(struct fib_config *cfg, goto failure; } - fi = kzalloc(sizeof(*fi)+nhs*sizeof(struct fib_nh), GFP_KERNEL); + fi = kzalloc(struct_size(fi, fib_nh, nhs), GFP_KERNEL); if (!fi) goto failure; fi->fib_metrics = ip_fib_metrics_init(fi->fib_net, cfg->fc_mx,
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 code was detected with the help of Coccinelle. Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com> --- net/ipv4/fib_semantics.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)