dm switch: use struct_size() in kzalloc()
authorGustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Tue, 8 Jan 2019 16:02:33 +0000 (10:02 -0600)
committerMike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Tue, 5 Mar 2019 19:48:51 +0000 (14:48 -0500)
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>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
drivers/md/dm-switch.c

index fae35ca..8a0f057 100644 (file)
@@ -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;