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dmaengine: tegra210-adma: Use struct_size() in devm_kzalloc()

PATCH Applied Gustavo A. R. Silva 2 participants 2 messages Jan 7, 2019 – Jan 20, 2019

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PATCH 1/1 dmaengine: tegra210-adma: Use struct_size() in devm_kzalloc()

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;
    void *entry[];
};

instance = devm_kzalloc(dev, sizeof(struct foo) + sizeof(void *) * count, GFP_KERNEL);

Instead of leaving these open-coded and prone to type mistakes, we can now use the new struct_size() helper:

instance = devm_kzalloc(dev, struct_size(instance, entry, count), GFP_KERNEL);

This code was detected with the help of Coccinelle.

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 drivers/dma/tegra210-adma.c | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
drivers/dma/tegra210-adma.c +3 -2
index b26256f23d67..5ec0dd97b397 100644
@@ -678,8 +678,9 @@ static int tegra_adma_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 		return -ENODEV;
 	}
 
-	tdma = devm_kzalloc(&pdev->dev, sizeof(*tdma) + cdata->nr_channels *
-			    sizeof(struct tegra_adma_chan), GFP_KERNEL);
+	tdma = devm_kzalloc(&pdev->dev,
+			    struct_size(tdma, channels, cdata->nr_channels),
+			    GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!tdma)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
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Quoted 9 lines · 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;
    void *entry[];
};
Quoted 8 lines

instance = devm_kzalloc(dev, sizeof(struct foo) + sizeof(void *) * count, GFP_KERNEL);

Instead of leaving these open-coded and prone to type mistakes, we can now use the new struct_size() helper:

instance = devm_kzalloc(dev, struct_size(instance, entry, count), GFP_KERNEL);

This code was detected with the help of Coccinelle.

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