[PATCH] qxl: Use struct_size() in kzalloc()

From: Gustavo A. R. Silva
Date: Tue Jan 08 2019 - 11:21:58 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>
---
drivers/gpu/drm/qxl/qxl_display.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/qxl/qxl_display.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/qxl/qxl_display.c
index ce0b9c40fc21..c8642712412e 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/qxl/qxl_display.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/qxl/qxl_display.c
@@ -48,8 +48,8 @@ static int qxl_alloc_client_monitors_config(struct qxl_device *qdev,
}
if (!qdev->client_monitors_config) {
qdev->client_monitors_config = kzalloc(
- sizeof(struct qxl_monitors_config) +
- sizeof(struct qxl_head) * count, GFP_KERNEL);
+ struct_size(qdev->client_monitors_config,
+ heads, count), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!qdev->client_monitors_config)
return -ENOMEM;
}
--
2.20.1