linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mtd: rawnand: jz4780: use struct_size() in devm

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Message-ID: <CAGXu5j+biznRQt+gi7Nj1GZ0zk-s6JRh1NB5DhOOOMq0sf8ciQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 23 Aug 2018 14:50:48 -0700
From:   Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To:     "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@...eddedor.com>
Cc:     Harvey Hunt <harveyhuntnexus@...il.com>,
        Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@...tlin.com>,
        Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@...tlin.com>,
        Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>,
        David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
        Brian Norris <computersforpeace@...il.com>,
        Marek Vasut <marek.vasut@...il.com>,
        Linux mtd <linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mtd: rawnand: jz4780: use struct_size() in devm_kzalloc()

On Thu, Aug 23, 2018 at 12:33 PM, Gustavo A. R. Silva
<gustavo@...eddedor.com> 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 = devm_kzalloc(dev, 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 = devm_kzalloc(dev, struct_size(instance, entry, count), GFP_KERNEL);
>
> Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@...eddedor.com>

Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>

-Kees

> ---
>  drivers/mtd/nand/raw/jz4780_nand.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/mtd/nand/raw/jz4780_nand.c b/drivers/mtd/nand/raw/jz4780_nand.c
> index db4fa60..ac62395 100644
> --- a/drivers/mtd/nand/raw/jz4780_nand.c
> +++ b/drivers/mtd/nand/raw/jz4780_nand.c
> @@ -352,7 +352,7 @@ static int jz4780_nand_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>                 return -ENODEV;
>         }
>
> -       nfc = devm_kzalloc(dev, sizeof(*nfc) + (sizeof(nfc->cs[0]) * num_banks), GFP_KERNEL);
> +       nfc = devm_kzalloc(dev, struct_size(nfc, cs, num_banks), GFP_KERNEL);
>         if (!nfc)
>                 return -ENOMEM;
>
> --
> 2.7.4
>



-- 
Kees Cook
Pixel Security