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dmaengine: bcm2835: Use struct_size() in kzalloc()

PATCH Applied Gustavo A. R. Silva 2 participants 2 messages Jan 4, 2019 – Jan 7, 2019

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PATCH 1/1 dmaengine: bcm2835: 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;
    void *entry[];
};

instance = kzalloc(sizeof(struct foo) + sizeof(void *) * count, 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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 drivers/dma/bcm2835-dma.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
drivers/dma/bcm2835-dma.c +1 -2
index 1a44c8086d77..7beec403c2c9 100644
@@ -312,8 +312,7 @@ static struct bcm2835_desc *bcm2835_dma_create_cb_chain(
 		return NULL;
 
 	/* allocate and setup the descriptor. */
-	d = kzalloc(sizeof(*d) + frames * sizeof(struct bcm2835_cb_entry),
-		    gfp);
+	d = kzalloc(struct_size(d, cb_list, frames), gfp);
 	if (!d)
 		return NULL;
 
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Quoted 9 lines · Gustavo A. R. Silva

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;
    void *entry[];
};
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instance = kzalloc(sizeof(struct foo) + sizeof(void *) * count, 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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