linux-kernel - [PATCH 03/46] selinux: Improve size determinations in four functions

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Date:   Sun, 15 Jan 2017 16:00:04 +0100
From:   SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
To:     linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org, selinux@...ho.nsa.gov,
        Eric Paris <eparis@...isplace.org>,
        James Morris <james.l.morris@...cle.com>,
        Paul Moore <paul@...l-moore.com>,
        "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@...lyn.com>,
        Stephen Smalley <sds@...ho.nsa.gov>,
        William Roberts <william.c.roberts@...el.com>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 03/46] selinux: Improve size determinations in four functions

From: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2017 11:22:12 +0100

Replace the specification of data structures by pointer dereferences
as the parameter for the operator "sizeof" to make the corresponding size
determination a bit safer.

Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
---
 security/selinux/ss/conditional.c | 8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/security/selinux/ss/conditional.c b/security/selinux/ss/conditional.c
index 4a3bf29f7565..771c96afe1d5 100644
--- a/security/selinux/ss/conditional.c
+++ b/security/selinux/ss/conditional.c
@@ -227,7 +227,7 @@ int cond_read_bool(struct policydb *p, struct hashtab *h, void *fp)
 	u32 len;
 	int rc;
 
-	booldatum = kzalloc(sizeof(struct cond_bool_datum), GFP_KERNEL);
+	booldatum = kzalloc(sizeof(*booldatum), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!booldatum)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
@@ -332,7 +332,7 @@ static int cond_insertf(struct avtab *a, struct avtab_key *k, struct avtab_datum
 		goto err;
 	}
 
-	list = kzalloc(sizeof(struct cond_av_list), GFP_KERNEL);
+	list = kzalloc(sizeof(*list), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!list) {
 		rc = -ENOMEM;
 		goto err;
@@ -421,7 +421,7 @@ static int cond_read_node(struct policydb *p, struct cond_node *node, void *fp)
 			goto err;
 
 		rc = -ENOMEM;
-		expr = kzalloc(sizeof(struct cond_expr), GFP_KERNEL);
+		expr = kzalloc(sizeof(*expr), GFP_KERNEL);
 		if (!expr)
 			goto err;
 
@@ -472,7 +472,7 @@ int cond_read_list(struct policydb *p, void *fp)
 
 	for (i = 0; i < len; i++) {
 		rc = -ENOMEM;
-		node = kzalloc(sizeof(struct cond_node), GFP_KERNEL);
+		node = kzalloc(sizeof(*node), GFP_KERNEL);
 		if (!node)
 			goto err;
 
-- 
2.11.0