Re: [PATCH] mm: memcontrol: use struct_size() in kmalloc()

[William Kucharski]

> On Jan 4, 2019, at 11:37 AM, Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> 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>
> ---
> mm/memcontrol.c | 3 +--
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
> index af7f18b32389..ad256cf7da47 100644
> --- a/mm/memcontrol.c
> +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
> @@ -3626,8 +3626,7 @@ static int __mem_cgroup_usage_register_event(struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
> 	size = thresholds->primary ? thresholds->primary->size + 1 : 1;
> 
> 	/* Allocate memory for new array of thresholds */
> -	new = kmalloc(sizeof(*new) + size * sizeof(struct mem_cgroup_threshold),
> -			GFP_KERNEL);
> +	new = kmalloc(struct_size(new, entries, size), GFP_KERNEL);
> 	if (!new) {
> 		ret = -ENOMEM;
> 		goto unlock;
> -- 
> 2.20.1
> 

Reviewed-by: William Kucharski <william.kucharski@xxxxxxxxxx>