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wan: wanxl: use struct_size() in kzalloc()

PATCH Applied Gustavo A. R. Silva 2 participants 2 messages Feb 8, 2019 – Feb 9, 2019

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PATCH 1/1 wan: wanxl: 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[];
};

size = sizeof(struct foo) + count * sizeof(struct boo); instance = alloc(size, GFP_KERNEL)

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

instance = alloc(struct_size(instance, entry, count), GFP_KERNEL)

Notice that, in this case, variable alloc_size is not necessary, hence it is removed.

This code was detected with the help of Coccinelle.

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 drivers/net/wan/wanxl.c | 5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
drivers/net/wan/wanxl.c +2 -3
index d573a57bc301..459ce52a0a4d 100644
@@ -565,7 +565,7 @@ static int wanxl_pci_init_one(struct pci_dev *pdev,
 	u32 plx_phy;		/* PLX PCI base address */
 	u32 mem_phy;		/* memory PCI base addr */
 	u8 __iomem *mem;	/* memory virtual base addr */
-	int i, ports, alloc_size;
+	int i, ports;
 
 #ifndef MODULE
 	pr_info_once("%s\n", version);
@@ -601,8 +601,7 @@ static int wanxl_pci_init_one(struct pci_dev *pdev,
 	default: ports = 4;
 	}
 
-	alloc_size = sizeof(struct card) + ports * sizeof(struct port);
-	card = kzalloc(alloc_size, GFP_KERNEL);
+	card = kzalloc(struct_size(card, ports, ports), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (card == NULL) {
 		pci_release_regions(pdev);
 		pci_disable_device(pdev);
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From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2019 21:16:48 -0600

Quoted 15 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[];
};

size = sizeof(struct foo) + count * sizeof(struct boo); instance = alloc(size, GFP_KERNEL)

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

Quoted 8 lines

instance = alloc(struct_size(instance, entry, count), GFP_KERNEL)

Notice that, in this case, variable alloc_size is not necessary, hence it is removed.

This code was detected with the help of Coccinelle.

Applied.