Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Thu, 21 Feb 2019 09:23:53 -0600 | From | "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <> | Subject | [PATCH] libnvdimm, region: 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; 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.
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com> --- drivers/nvdimm/region_devs.c | 7 +++---- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/nvdimm/region_devs.c b/drivers/nvdimm/region_devs.c index e2818f94f292..d36cb5df9683 100644 --- a/drivers/nvdimm/region_devs.c +++ b/drivers/nvdimm/region_devs.c @@ -1020,10 +1020,9 @@ static struct nd_region *nd_region_create(struct nvdimm_bus *nvdimm_bus, } region_buf = ndbr; } else { - nd_region = kzalloc(sizeof(struct nd_region) - + sizeof(struct nd_mapping) - * ndr_desc->num_mappings, - GFP_KERNEL); + nd_region = kzalloc(struct_size(nd_region, mapping, + ndr_desc->num_mappings), + GFP_KERNEL); region_buf = nd_region; } -- 2.20.1
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