ipv4: fib: use struct_size() in kzalloc()
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PATCH 1/1 ipv4: fib: 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[];
};instance = kzalloc(sizeof(struct foo) + count * sizeof(struct boo), 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.
--- net/ipv4/fib_semantics.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
net/ipv4/fib_semantics.c +1 -1
@@ -1072,7 +1072,7 @@ struct fib_info *fib_create_info(struct fib_config *cfg, goto failure; } - fi =kzalloc (sizeof (*fi)+nhs*sizeof (struct fib_nh ),GFP_KERNEL ); + fi =kzalloc (struct_size (fi, fib_nh, nhs),GFP_KERNEL );if (!fi) goto failure; fi->fib_metrics = ip_fib_metrics_init(fi->fib_net, cfg->fc_mx,
Signature · 1 line
2.20.1
From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2019 18:51:48 -0600
Quoted 11 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[]; };instance =
kzalloc(sizeof(struct foo) + count * sizeof(struct boo), 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.
Signed-off-by Gustavo A. R. Silva <[email protected]>
Applied.