Re: [PATCH 1/5] sctp: Use kmalloc_array() in sctp_init()

[Vlad Yasevich]

On 05/22/2017 12:37 PM, SF Markus Elfring wrote:
> From: Markus Elfring <elfring@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Mon, 22 May 2017 17:20:11 +0200
> 
> * A multiplication for the size determination of a memory allocation
>   indicated that an array data structure should be processed.
>   Thus use the corresponding function "kmalloc_array".
> 
>   This issue was detected by using the Coccinelle software.
> 
> * Replace the specification of a data structure by a pointer dereference
>   to make the corresponding size determination a bit safer according to
>   the Linux coding style convention.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevich@xxxxxxxxx>

-vlad

> ---
>  net/sctp/protocol.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/net/sctp/protocol.c b/net/sctp/protocol.c
> index 989a900383b5..2b1a6215bd2f 100644
> --- a/net/sctp/protocol.c
> +++ b/net/sctp/protocol.c
> @@ -1442,6 +1442,6 @@ static __init int sctp_init(void)
>  
>  	/* Allocate and initialize the endpoint hash table.  */
>  	sctp_ep_hashsize = 64;
> -	sctp_ep_hashtable =
> -		kmalloc(64 * sizeof(struct sctp_hashbucket), GFP_KERNEL);
> +	sctp_ep_hashtable = kmalloc_array(64, sizeof(*sctp_ep_hashtable),
> +					  GFP_KERNEL);
>  	if (!sctp_ep_hashtable) {
>