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mISDN: hfcsusb: Use struct_size() in kzalloc()

PATCH Applied Gustavo A. R. Silva 2 participants 2 messages Jan 8, 2019 – Jan 12, 2019

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PATCH 1/1 mISDN: hfcsusb: Use struct_size() in 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 = kzalloc(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 = kzalloc(struct_size(instance, entry, count), GFP_KERNEL);

This code was detected with the help of Coccinelle.

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 drivers/isdn/hardware/mISDN/hfcsusb.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
drivers/isdn/hardware/mISDN/hfcsusb.c +1 -2
index 6d05946b445e..124ff530da82 100644
@@ -262,8 +262,7 @@ hfcsusb_ph_info(struct hfcsusb *hw)
 	struct dchannel *dch = &hw->dch;
 	int i;
 
-	phi = kzalloc(sizeof(struct ph_info) +
-		      dch->dev.nrbchan * sizeof(struct ph_info_ch), GFP_ATOMIC);
+	phi = kzalloc(struct_size(phi, bch, dch->dev.nrbchan), GFP_ATOMIC);
 	phi->dch.ch.protocol = hw->protocol;
 	phi->dch.ch.Flags = dch->Flags;
 	phi->dch.state = dch->state;
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From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2019 15:27:05 -0600

Quoted 11 lines

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 = kzalloc(sizeof(struct foo) + sizeof(void *) * count, GFP_KERNEL);

Quoted 8 lines

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.

Applied.