[PATCH] IB/cm: Use struct_size() in kmalloc()

From: Gustavo A. R. Silva
Date: Mon Jan 07 2019 - 12:26:20 EST


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 = kmalloc(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 = 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/infiniband/core/cm.c | 3 +--
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/core/cm.c b/drivers/infiniband/core/cm.c
index edb2cb758be7..af7f74faa448 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/core/cm.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/core/cm.c
@@ -4052,8 +4052,7 @@ static void cm_recv_handler(struct ib_mad_agent *mad_agent,
atomic_long_inc(&port->counter_group[CM_RECV].
counter[attr_id - CM_ATTR_ID_OFFSET]);

- work = kmalloc(sizeof(*work) + sizeof(struct sa_path_rec) * paths,
- GFP_KERNEL);
+ work = kmalloc(struct_size(work, path, paths), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!work) {
ib_free_recv_mad(mad_recv_wc);
return;
--
2.20.1