Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Tue, 8 Jan 2019 15:30:59 -0600 | From | "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <> | Subject | [PATCH] afs: 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> --- fs/afs/server_list.c | 4 +--- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/afs/server_list.c b/fs/afs/server_list.c index 95d0761cdb34..155dc14caef9 100644 --- a/fs/afs/server_list.c +++ b/fs/afs/server_list.c @@ -42,9 +42,7 @@ struct afs_server_list *afs_alloc_server_list(struct afs_cell *cell, if (vldb->fs_mask[i] & type_mask) nr_servers++; - slist = kzalloc(sizeof(struct afs_server_list) + - sizeof(struct afs_server_entry) * nr_servers, - GFP_KERNEL); + slist = kzalloc(struct_size(slist, servers, nr_servers), GFP_KERNEL); if (!slist) goto error; -- 2.20.1
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