[PATCH] sparc: use struct_size() in kzalloc()

From: Gustavo A. R. Silva
Date: Tue Jan 08 2019 - 11:14:07 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 = 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/sparc/kernel/cpumap.c | 3 +--
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/sparc/kernel/cpumap.c b/arch/sparc/kernel/cpumap.c
index d1d52822603d..1cb62bfeaa1f 100644
--- a/arch/sparc/kernel/cpumap.c
+++ b/arch/sparc/kernel/cpumap.c
@@ -194,8 +194,7 @@ static struct cpuinfo_tree *build_cpuinfo_tree(void)

n = enumerate_cpuinfo_nodes(tmp_level);

- new_tree = kzalloc(sizeof(struct cpuinfo_tree) +
- (sizeof(struct cpuinfo_node) * n), GFP_ATOMIC);
+ new_tree = kzalloc(struct_size(new_tree, nodes, n), GFP_ATOMIC);
if (!new_tree)
return NULL;

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