[PATCH] powerpc/ps3: Use struct_size() in kzalloc()
Gustavo A. R. Silva
gustavo at embeddedor.com
Wed Jan 9 08:00:10 AEDT 2019
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 at embeddedor.com>
---
arch/powerpc/platforms/ps3/device-init.c | 4 +---
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/ps3/device-init.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/ps3/device-init.c
index e7075aaff1bb..59587b75493d 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/ps3/device-init.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/ps3/device-init.c
@@ -354,9 +354,7 @@ static int ps3_setup_storage_dev(const struct ps3_repository_device *repo,
repo->dev_index, repo->dev_type, port, blk_size, num_blocks,
num_regions);
- p = kzalloc(sizeof(struct ps3_storage_device) +
- num_regions * sizeof(struct ps3_storage_region),
- GFP_KERNEL);
+ p = kzalloc(struct_size(p, regions, num_regions), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!p) {
result = -ENOMEM;
goto fail_malloc;
--
2.20.1
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