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cxgb4: clip_tbl: Use struct_size() in kvzalloc()

PATCH Applied Gustavo A. R. Silva 2 participants 2 messages Jan 29, 2019

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PATCH 1/1 cxgb4: clip_tbl: Use struct_size() in kvzalloc()

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 = kvzalloc(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 = kvzalloc(struct_size(instance, entry, count), GFP_KERNEL);

This code was detected with the help of Coccinelle.

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 drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/clip_tbl.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/clip_tbl.c +1 -2
index 5701272aa7f7..ce28820c57c9 100644
@@ -289,8 +289,7 @@ struct clip_tbl *t4_init_clip_tbl(unsigned int clipt_start,
 	if (clipt_size < CLIPT_MIN_HASH_BUCKETS)
 		return NULL;
 
-	ctbl = kvzalloc(sizeof(*ctbl) +
-			    clipt_size*sizeof(struct list_head), GFP_KERNEL);
+	ctbl = kvzalloc(struct_size(ctbl, hash_list, clipt_size), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!ctbl)
 		return NULL;
 
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From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2019 10:44:44 -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;
    struct boo entry[];
};

instance = kvzalloc(sizeof(struct foo) + count * sizeof(struct boo), 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 = kvzalloc(struct_size(instance, entry, count), GFP_KERNEL);

This code was detected with the help of Coccinelle.

Applied.