Thread (2 messages) 2 messages, 2 authors, 2019-01-07

Re: [PATCH] md/raid10: Use struct_size() in kmalloc()

From: Song Liu <hidden>
Date: 2019-01-07 23:01:52
Also in: lkml

On Fri, Jan 4, 2019 at 1:14 PM Gustavo A. R. Silva
[off-list ref] wrote:
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.

Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <redacted>
Acked-by: Song Liu <redacted>
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
---
 drivers/md/raid10.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/md/raid10.c b/drivers/md/raid10.c
index abb5d382f64d..320cb430cca6 100644
--- a/drivers/md/raid10.c
+++ b/drivers/md/raid10.c
@@ -4788,8 +4788,7 @@ static int handle_reshape_read_error(struct mddev *mddev,
        int idx = 0;
        struct page **pages;

-       r10b = kmalloc(sizeof(*r10b) +
-              sizeof(struct r10dev) * conf->copies, GFP_NOIO);
+       r10b = kmalloc(struct_size(r10b, devs, conf->copies), GFP_NOIO);
        if (!r10b) {
                set_bit(MD_RECOVERY_INTR, &mddev->recovery);
                return -ENOMEM;
--
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