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bnx2x: Use struct_size() in kzalloc()

PATCH Applied Gustavo A. R. Silva 2 participants 2 messages Feb 8, 2019 – Feb 9, 2019

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PATCH 1/1 bnx2x: 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[];
};

size = sizeof(struct foo) + count * sizeof(struct boo); instance = kzalloc(size, 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)

Notice that, in this case, variable fsz is not necessary, hence it is removed.

This code was detected with the help of Coccinelle.

---
 drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_vfpf.c | 8 ++------
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_vfpf.c +2 -6
index 8e0a317b31f7..a9bdc21873d3 100644
@@ -1654,13 +1654,9 @@ static int bnx2x_vf_mbx_macvlan_list(struct bnx2x *bp,
 {
 	int i, j;
 	struct bnx2x_vf_mac_vlan_filters *fl = NULL;
-	size_t fsz;
 
-	fsz = tlv->n_mac_vlan_filters *
-	      sizeof(struct bnx2x_vf_mac_vlan_filter) +
-	      sizeof(struct bnx2x_vf_mac_vlan_filters);
-
-	fl = kzalloc(fsz, GFP_KERNEL);
+	fl = kzalloc(struct_size(fl, filters, tlv->n_mac_vlan_filters),
+		     GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!fl)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
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From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2019 21:29:10 -0600

Quoted 15 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[];
};

size = sizeof(struct foo) + count * sizeof(struct boo); instance = kzalloc(size, 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 = kzalloc(struct_size(instance, entry, count), GFP_KERNEL)

Notice that, in this case, variable fsz is not necessary, hence it is removed.

This code was detected with the help of Coccinelle.

Applied.