linux-kernel - [PATCH] kvm: Use struct

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Date:   Fri, 4 Jan 2019 10:29:10 -0600
From:   "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@...eddedor.com>
To:     Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@...hat.com>
Cc:     kvm@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@...eddedor.com>
Subject: [PATCH] kvm: Use struct_size() in kmalloc()

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 = kmalloc(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 = kmalloc(struct_size(instance, entry, count), GFP_KERNEL);

This code was detected with the help of Coccinelle.

Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@...eddedor.com>
---
 virt/kvm/kvm_main.c | 8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
index 666d0155662d..635b12fdbab8 100644
--- a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
@@ -3709,8 +3709,8 @@ int kvm_io_bus_register_dev(struct kvm *kvm, enum kvm_bus bus_idx, gpa_t addr,
 	if (bus->dev_count - bus->ioeventfd_count > NR_IOBUS_DEVS - 1)
 		return -ENOSPC;
 
-	new_bus = kmalloc(sizeof(*bus) + ((bus->dev_count + 1) *
-			  sizeof(struct kvm_io_range)), GFP_KERNEL);
+	new_bus = kmalloc(struct_size(bus, range, bus->dev_count + 1),
+			  GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!new_bus)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
@@ -3755,8 +3755,8 @@ void kvm_io_bus_unregister_dev(struct kvm *kvm, enum kvm_bus bus_idx,
 	if (i == bus->dev_count)
 		return;
 
-	new_bus = kmalloc(sizeof(*bus) + ((bus->dev_count - 1) *
-			  sizeof(struct kvm_io_range)), GFP_KERNEL);
+	new_bus = kmalloc(struct_size(bus, range, bus->dev_count - 1),
+			  GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!new_bus)  {
 		pr_err("kvm: failed to shrink bus, removing it completely\n");
 		goto broken;
-- 
2.20.1