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dmaengine: axi-dmac: Use struct_size() in kzalloc()

PATCH Applied Gustavo A. R. Silva 2 participants 2 messages Jan 9, 2019 – Jan 20, 2019

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PATCH 1/1 dmaengine: axi-dmac: 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/dma-axi-dmac.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
drivers/dma/dma-axi-dmac.c +1 -2
index 15b2453d2647..ffc0adc2f6ce 100644
@@ -367,8 +367,7 @@ static struct axi_dmac_desc *axi_dmac_alloc_desc(unsigned int num_sgs)
 	struct axi_dmac_desc *desc;
 	unsigned int i;
 
-	desc = kzalloc(sizeof(struct axi_dmac_desc) +
-		sizeof(struct axi_dmac_sg) * num_sgs, GFP_NOWAIT);
+	desc = kzalloc(struct_size(desc, sg, num_sgs), GFP_NOWAIT);
 	if (!desc)
 		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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