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ipv4: fib: use struct_size() in kzalloc()

PATCH Applied Gustavo A. R. Silva 2 participants 2 messages Jan 31, 2019 – Feb 1, 2019

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PATCH 1/1 ipv4: fib: 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;
    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.

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 net/ipv4/fib_semantics.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
net/ipv4/fib_semantics.c +1 -1
index 5022bc63863a..8e185b5a2bf6 100644
@@ -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,
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From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2019 18:51:48 -0600

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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);

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.