Re: [PATCH] usbip: usbip_host_common: Use struct_size() in realloc()

From: Gustavo A. R. Silva
Date: Thu May 23 2019 - 10:55:10 EST


Hi all,

Sorry, please, drop this patch.

Thanks
--
Gustavo

On 5/23/19 9:40 AM, Gustavo A. R. Silva 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;
> struct boo entry[];
> };
>
> size = sizeof(struct foo) + count * sizeof(struct boo);
> instance = realloc(instance, size);
>
> Instead of leaving these open-coded and prone to type mistakes, we can
> now use the new struct_size() helper:
>
> size = struct_size(instance, entry, count);
>
> or
>
> instance = realloc(instance, struct_size(instance, entry, count));
>
> Notice that, in this case, variable size is not necessary,
> hence it is removed.
>
> This code was detected with the help of Coccinelle.
>
> Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> Notice that checkpatch reports the following warning:
>
> WARNING: line over 80 characters
> #57: FILE: tools/usb/usbip/libsrc/usbip_host_common.c:90:
> + edev = realloc(edev, struct_size(edev, uinf, edev->udev.bNumInterfaces));
>
> The line above is 81-character long. So, I think we should be fine
> with that, instead of split it into two lines like:
>
> edev = realloc(edev,
> struct_size(edev, uinf, edev->udev.bNumInterfaces));
>
> Thanks
> --
> Gustavo
>
> tools/usb/usbip/libsrc/usbip_host_common.c | 6 +-----
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/tools/usb/usbip/libsrc/usbip_host_common.c b/tools/usb/usbip/libsrc/usbip_host_common.c
> index 2813aa821c82..1645d02a52af 100644
> --- a/tools/usb/usbip/libsrc/usbip_host_common.c
> +++ b/tools/usb/usbip/libsrc/usbip_host_common.c
> @@ -67,7 +67,6 @@ struct usbip_exported_device *usbip_exported_device_new(
> {
> struct usbip_exported_device *edev = NULL;
> struct usbip_exported_device *edev_old;
> - size_t size;
> int i;
>
> edev = calloc(1, sizeof(struct usbip_exported_device));
> @@ -87,11 +86,8 @@ struct usbip_exported_device *usbip_exported_device_new(
> goto err;
>
> /* reallocate buffer to include usb interface data */
> - size = sizeof(struct usbip_exported_device) +
> - edev->udev.bNumInterfaces * sizeof(struct usbip_usb_interface);
> -
> edev_old = edev;
> - edev = realloc(edev, size);
> + edev = realloc(edev, struct_size(edev, uinf, edev->udev.bNumInterfaces));
> if (!edev) {
> edev = edev_old;
> dbg("realloc failed");
>