linux-kernel - [PATCH net-next] net, decnet: use struct

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Date:   Tue, 15 Jan 2019 13:50:06 -0600
From:   "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@...eddedor.com>
To:     "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:     linux-decnet-user@...ts.sourceforge.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@...eddedor.com>
Subject: [PATCH net-next] net, decnet: use struct_size() in 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;
    struct boo entry[];
};

instance = kzalloc(sizeof(struct foo) + count * sizeof(struct boo), GFP_KERNEL);

Instead of leaving these open-coded and prone to type mistakes, we can now
use the new struct_size() helper:

instance = kzalloc(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>
---
 net/decnet/dn_fib.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/decnet/dn_fib.c b/net/decnet/dn_fib.c
index f78fe58eafc8..6cd3737593a6 100644
--- a/net/decnet/dn_fib.c
+++ b/net/decnet/dn_fib.c
@@ -282,7 +282,7 @@ struct dn_fib_info *dn_fib_create_info(const struct rtmsg *r, struct nlattr *att
 	    (nhs = dn_fib_count_nhs(attrs[RTA_MULTIPATH])) == 0)
 		goto err_inval;
 
-	fi = kzalloc(sizeof(*fi)+nhs*sizeof(struct dn_fib_nh), GFP_KERNEL);
+	fi = kzalloc(struct_size(fi, fib_nh, nhs), GFP_KERNEL);
 	err = -ENOBUFS;
 	if (fi == NULL)
 		goto failure;
-- 
2.20.1