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Input: mcs_touchkey - use struct_size() in kzalloc()

PATCH Applied Gustavo A. R. Silva 2 participants 3 messages Jan 8, 2019 – Jan 14, 2019

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PATCH 1/1 Input: mcs_touchkey - 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.

---
 drivers/input/keyboard/mcs_touchkey.c | 5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
drivers/input/keyboard/mcs_touchkey.c +2 -3
index be56d4f262a7..b132662201a4 100644
@@ -113,9 +113,8 @@ static int mcs_touchkey_probe(struct i2c_client *client,
 		return -EINVAL;
 	}
 
-	data = kzalloc(sizeof(struct mcs_touchkey_data) +
-			sizeof(data->keycodes[0]) * (pdata->key_maxval + 1),
-			GFP_KERNEL);
+	data = kzalloc(struct_size(data, keycodes, pdata->key_maxval + 1),
+		       GFP_KERNEL);
 	input_dev = input_allocate_device();
 	if (!data || !input_dev) {
 		dev_err(&client->dev, "Failed to allocate memory\n");
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Quoted 11 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 = kzalloc(sizeof(struct foo) + sizeof(void *) * count, 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, thank you.

Quoted 23 lines
---
 drivers/input/keyboard/mcs_touchkey.c | 5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
drivers/input/keyboard/mcs_touchkey.c +2 -3
index be56d4f262a7..b132662201a4 100644
@@ -113,9 +113,8 @@ static int mcs_touchkey_probe(struct i2c_client *client,
 		return -EINVAL;
 	}
 
-	data = kzalloc(sizeof(struct mcs_touchkey_data) +
-			sizeof(data->keycodes[0]) * (pdata->key_maxval + 1),
-			GFP_KERNEL);
+	data = kzalloc(struct_size(data, keycodes, pdata->key_maxval + 1),
+		       GFP_KERNEL);
 	input_dev = input_allocate_device();
 	if (!data || !input_dev) {
 		dev_err(&client->dev, "Failed to allocate memory\n");
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