mlxsw: spectrum_nve: Use struct_size() in kzalloc()
authorGustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Tue, 15 Jan 2019 23:14:29 +0000 (17:14 -0600)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Wed, 16 Jan 2019 17:12:23 +0000 (09:12 -0800)
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 issue was detected with the help of Coccinelle.

Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum_nve.c

index fb1c48c..9019548 100644 (file)
@@ -267,8 +267,8 @@ mlxsw_sp_nve_mc_record_create(struct mlxsw_sp *mlxsw_sp,
        struct mlxsw_sp_nve_mc_record *mc_record;
        int err;
 
-       mc_record = kzalloc(sizeof(*mc_record) + num_max_entries *
-                           sizeof(struct mlxsw_sp_nve_mc_entry), GFP_KERNEL);
+       mc_record = kzalloc(struct_size(mc_record, entries, num_max_entries),
+                           GFP_KERNEL);
        if (!mc_record)
                return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);