Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Tue, 8 Jan 2019 10:02:33 -0600 | From | "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <> | Subject | [PATCH] dm-switch: use struct_size() in kzalloc() |
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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.
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com> --- drivers/md/dm-switch.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-switch.c b/drivers/md/dm-switch.c index fae35caf3672..8a0f057b8122 100644 --- a/drivers/md/dm-switch.c +++ b/drivers/md/dm-switch.c @@ -61,8 +61,7 @@ static struct switch_ctx *alloc_switch_ctx(struct dm_target *ti, unsigned nr_pat { struct switch_ctx *sctx; - sctx = kzalloc(sizeof(struct switch_ctx) + nr_paths * sizeof(struct switch_path), - GFP_KERNEL); + sctx = kzalloc(struct_size(sctx, path_list, nr_paths), GFP_KERNEL); if (!sctx) return NULL; -- 2.20.1
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