Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Wed, 30 Jan 2019 18:33:55 -0600 | From | "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <> | Subject | [PATCH net-next] tulip: eeprom: use struct_size() in kmalloc() |
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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 = kmalloc(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 = kmalloc(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/net/ethernet/dec/tulip/eeprom.c | 4 +--- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/dec/tulip/eeprom.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/dec/tulip/eeprom.c index 1812f4916917..ba0a69b363f8 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/dec/tulip/eeprom.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/dec/tulip/eeprom.c @@ -224,9 +224,7 @@ void tulip_parse_eeprom(struct net_device *dev) return; } - mtable = kmalloc(sizeof(struct mediatable) + - count * sizeof(struct medialeaf), - GFP_KERNEL); + mtable = kmalloc(struct_size(mtable, mleaf, count), GFP_KERNEL); if (mtable == NULL) return; /* Horrible, impossible failure. */ last_mediatable = tp->mtable = mtable; -- 2.20.1
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