linux-kernel - [PATCH] powerpc/spufs: use struct

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Date:   Tue, 8 Jan 2019 12:37:20 -0600
From:   "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@...eddedor.com>
To:     Jeremy Kerr <jk@...abs.org>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
        Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>
Cc:     linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@...eddedor.com>
Subject: [PATCH] powerpc/spufs: 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>
---
 arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/file.c | 5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/file.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/file.c
index ae8123edddc6..48c2477e7e2a 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/file.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/file.c
@@ -2338,9 +2338,8 @@ static int spufs_switch_log_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
 		goto out;
 	}
 
-	ctx->switch_log = kmalloc(sizeof(struct switch_log) +
-		SWITCH_LOG_BUFSIZE * sizeof(struct switch_log_entry),
-		GFP_KERNEL);
+	ctx->switch_log = kmalloc(struct_size(ctx->switch_log, log,
+				  SWITCH_LOG_BUFSIZE), GFP_KERNEL);
 
 	if (!ctx->switch_log) {
 		rc = -ENOMEM;
-- 
2.20.1