Thread (5 messages) 5 messages, 2 authors, 2019-04-01
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[PATCH 2/2 net-next] cxgb3/l2t: Use struct_size() in kvzalloc()

From: Gustavo A. R. Silva <hidden>
Date: 2019-03-29 15:28:45
Also in: lkml
Subsystem: cxgb3 ethernet driver (cxgb3), networking drivers, the rest · Maintainers: Potnuri Bharat Teja, Andrew Lunn, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds

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 = kvzalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);

Instead of leaving these open-coded and prone to type mistakes, we can
now use the new struct_size() helper:

instance = kvzalloc(struct_size(instance, entry, count), GFP_KERNEL);

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

This code was detected with the help of Coccinelle.

Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <redacted>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb3/l2t.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb3/l2t.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb3/l2t.c
index 0e9182d3f02c..b3e4118a15e7 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb3/l2t.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb3/l2t.c
@@ -443,9 +443,9 @@ void t3_l2t_update(struct t3cdev *dev, struct neighbour *neigh)
 struct l2t_data *t3_init_l2t(unsigned int l2t_capacity)
 {
 	struct l2t_data *d;
-	int i, size = sizeof(*d) + l2t_capacity * sizeof(struct l2t_entry);
+	int i;
 
-	d = kvzalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
+	d = kvzalloc(struct_size(d, l2tab, l2t_capacity), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!d)
 		return NULL;
 
-- 
2.21.0
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