linux-kernel - [PATCH] mm: memcontrol: use struct

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Date:   Fri, 4 Jan 2019 12:37:26 -0600
From:   "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@...eddedor.com>
To:     Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>,
        Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@...il.com>
Cc:     cgroups@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@...eddedor.com>
Subject: [PATCH] mm: memcontrol: 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>
---
 mm/memcontrol.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index af7f18b32389..ad256cf7da47 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -3626,8 +3626,7 @@ static int __mem_cgroup_usage_register_event(struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
 	size = thresholds->primary ? thresholds->primary->size + 1 : 1;
 
 	/* Allocate memory for new array of thresholds */
-	new = kmalloc(sizeof(*new) + size * sizeof(struct mem_cgroup_threshold),
-			GFP_KERNEL);
+	new = kmalloc(struct_size(new, entries, size), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!new) {
 		ret = -ENOMEM;
 		goto unlock;
-- 
2.20.1