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IB/usnic: Use struct_size() in kmalloc()

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

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PATCH 1/1 IB/usnic: 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;
    void *entry[];
};

instance = kmalloc(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 = kmalloc(struct_size(instance, entry, count), GFP_KERNEL);

This code was detected with the help of Coccinelle.

---
 drivers/infiniband/hw/usnic/usnic_uiom.c | 5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
drivers/infiniband/hw/usnic/usnic_uiom.c +2 -3
index 49275a548751..ce01a59fccc4 100644
@@ -157,9 +157,8 @@ static int usnic_uiom_get_pages(unsigned long addr, size_t size, int writable,
 		off = 0;
 
 		while (ret) {
-			chunk = kmalloc(sizeof(*chunk) +
-					sizeof(struct scatterlist) *
-					min_t(int, ret, USNIC_UIOM_PAGE_CHUNK),
+			chunk = kmalloc(struct_size(chunk, page_list,
+					min_t(int, ret, USNIC_UIOM_PAGE_CHUNK)),
 					GFP_KERNEL);
 			if (!chunk) {
 				ret = -ENOMEM;
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Quoted 14 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[];
};

instance = kmalloc(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:

Quoted 8 lines

instance = kmalloc(struct_size(instance, entry, count), GFP_KERNEL);

This code was detected with the help of Coccinelle.

---
 drivers/infiniband/hw/usnic/usnic_uiom.c | 5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

Applied to for-next, thanks

Jason