[PATCH] IB/srp: Use struct_size() in kzalloc()

From: Gustavo A. R. Silva
Date: Tue Jan 08 2019 - 11:57:23 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/infiniband/ulp/srp/ib_srp.c | 3 +--
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/ulp/srp/ib_srp.c b/drivers/infiniband/ulp/srp/ib_srp.c
index 31d91538bbf4..0f855294ff3f 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/ulp/srp/ib_srp.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/ulp/srp/ib_srp.c
@@ -443,8 +443,7 @@ static struct srp_fr_pool *srp_create_fr_pool(struct ib_device *device,
if (pool_size <= 0)
goto err;
ret = -ENOMEM;
- pool = kzalloc(sizeof(struct srp_fr_pool) +
- pool_size * sizeof(struct srp_fr_desc), GFP_KERNEL);
+ pool = kzalloc(struct_size(pool, desc, pool_size), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!pool)
goto err;
pool->size = pool_size;
--
2.20.1