linux-kernel - [PATCH] dmaengine: dma-jz4780: Use struct_size() in devm

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Date:   Mon, 24 Dec 2018 00:52:17 -0600
From:   "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@...eddedor.com>
To:     Zubair Lutfullah Kakakhel <Zubair.Kakakhel@...tec.com>,
        Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
        Vinod Koul <vkoul@...nel.org>
Cc:     dmaengine@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@...eddedor.com>
Subject: [PATCH] dmaengine: dma-jz4780: Use struct_size() in devm_kzalloc()

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);

This issue was detected with the help of Coccinelle.

Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@...eddedor.com>
---
 drivers/dma/dma-jz4780.c | 5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/dma/dma-jz4780.c b/drivers/dma/dma-jz4780.c
index a8b6225faa12..9ce0a386225b 100644
--- a/drivers/dma/dma-jz4780.c
+++ b/drivers/dma/dma-jz4780.c
@@ -838,9 +838,8 @@ static int jz4780_dma_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 	if (!soc_data)
 		return -EINVAL;
 
-	jzdma = devm_kzalloc(dev, sizeof(*jzdma)
-				+ sizeof(*jzdma->chan) * soc_data->nb_channels,
-				GFP_KERNEL);
+	jzdma = devm_kzalloc(dev, struct_size(jzdma, chan,
+			     soc_data->nb_channels), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!jzdma)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
-- 
2.20.1