linux-kernel - [PATCH] staging: ralink-gdma: Use struct

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Message-ID: <20190403205043.GA17320@embeddedor>
Date:   Wed, 3 Apr 2019 15:50:43 -0500
From:   "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@...eddedor.com>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@...eddedor.com>
Subject: [PATCH] staging: ralink-gdma: 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[];
};

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

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

size = struct_size(instance, entry, count);

or

instance = kzalloc(struct_size(instance, entry, count), GFP_KERNEL)

Based on the above, replace gdma_dma_alloc_desc() with kzalloc() and
use the new struct_size() helper.

This code was detected with the help of Coccinelle.

Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@...eddedor.com>
---
 drivers/staging/ralink-gdma/ralink-gdma.c | 12 +++---------
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/ralink-gdma/ralink-gdma.c b/drivers/staging/ralink-gdma/ralink-gdma.c
index b6d484532269..3228227776dc 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/ralink-gdma/ralink-gdma.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/ralink-gdma/ralink-gdma.c
@@ -169,12 +169,6 @@ static inline void gdma_dma_write(struct gdma_dma_dev *dma_dev,
 	writel(val, dma_dev->base + reg);
 }
 
-static struct gdma_dma_desc *gdma_dma_alloc_desc(unsigned int num_sgs)
-{
-	return kzalloc(sizeof(struct gdma_dma_desc) +
-		sizeof(struct gdma_dma_sg) * num_sgs, GFP_ATOMIC);
-}
-
 static enum gdma_dma_transfer_size gdma_dma_maxburst(u32 maxburst)
 {
 	if (maxburst < 2)
@@ -531,7 +525,7 @@ static struct dma_async_tx_descriptor *gdma_dma_prep_slave_sg(
 	struct scatterlist *sg;
 	unsigned int i;
 
-	desc = gdma_dma_alloc_desc(sg_len);
+	desc = kzalloc(struct_size(desc, sg, sg_len), GFP_ATOMIC);
 	if (!desc) {
 		dev_err(c->device->dev, "alloc sg decs error\n");
 		return NULL;
@@ -586,7 +580,7 @@ static struct dma_async_tx_descriptor *gdma_dma_prep_dma_memcpy(
 	xfer_count = GDMA_REG_CTRL0_TX_MASK;
 	num_periods = DIV_ROUND_UP(len, xfer_count);
 
-	desc = gdma_dma_alloc_desc(num_periods);
+	desc = kzalloc(struct_size(desc, sg, num_periods), GFP_ATOMIC);
 	if (!desc) {
 		dev_err(c->device->dev, "alloc memcpy decs error\n");
 		return NULL;
@@ -631,7 +625,7 @@ static struct dma_async_tx_descriptor *gdma_dma_prep_dma_cyclic(
 	}
 
 	num_periods = buf_len / period_len;
-	desc = gdma_dma_alloc_desc(num_periods);
+	desc = kzalloc(struct_size(desc, sg, num_periods), GFP_ATOMIC);
 	if (!desc) {
 		dev_err(c->device->dev, "alloc cyclic decs error\n");
 		return NULL;
-- 
2.21.0