tulip: eeprom: use struct_size() in kmalloc()
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PATCH 1/1 tulip: eeprom: use struct_size() in kmalloc()
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 = kmalloc(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 = kmalloc(struct_size(instance, entry, count), GFP_KERNEL);
This code was detected with the help of Coccinelle.
--- drivers/net/ethernet/dec/tulip/eeprom.c | 4 +--- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
drivers/net/ethernet/dec/tulip/eeprom.c +1 -3
@@ -224,9 +224,7 @@ void tulip_parse_eeprom(struct net_device *dev)return ; } - mtable =kmalloc (sizeof (struct mediatable ) + - count *sizeof (struct medialeaf ), -GFP_KERNEL ); + mtable =kmalloc (struct_size (mtable, mleaf, count),GFP_KERNEL );if (mtable ==NULL )return ;/* Horrible, impossible failure. */ last_mediatable = tp->mtable = mtable;
Signature · 1 line
2.20.1
From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2019 18:33:55 -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 =
kmalloc(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 =
kmalloc(struct_size(instance, entry, count), GFP_KERNEL);This code was detected with the help of Coccinelle.
Signed-off-by Gustavo A. R. Silva <[email protected]>
Applied.