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fm10k: 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 fm10k: 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 = kzalloc(size, 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);

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

This code was detected with the help of Coccinelle.

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 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/fm10k/fm10k_main.c | 6 ++----
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/fm10k/fm10k_main.c +2 -4
index 6fd15a734324..5a0419421511 100644
@@ -1603,14 +1603,12 @@ static int fm10k_alloc_q_vector(struct fm10k_intfc *interface,
 {
 	struct fm10k_q_vector *q_vector;
 	struct fm10k_ring *ring;
-	int ring_count, size;
+	int ring_count;
 
 	ring_count = txr_count + rxr_count;
-	size = sizeof(struct fm10k_q_vector) +
-	       (sizeof(struct fm10k_ring) * ring_count);
 
 	/* allocate q_vector and rings */
-	q_vector = kzalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
+	q_vector = kzalloc(struct_size(q_vector, ring, ring_count), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!q_vector)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
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From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2019 21:55:37 -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 = kzalloc(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 = kzalloc(struct_size(instance, entry, count), GFP_KERNEL);

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

This code was detected with the help of Coccinelle.

Applied.