linux-kernel - [PATCH] percpu: Use struct

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:   Thu, 29 Aug 2019 14:06:05 -0500
From:   "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@...eddedor.com>
To:     Dennis Zhou <dennis@...nel.org>, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
        Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
Cc:     linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@...eddedor.com>
Subject: [PATCH] percpu: Use struct_size() helper

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 pcpu_alloc_info {
	...
        struct pcpu_group_info  groups[];
};

Make use of the struct_size() helper instead of an open-coded version
in order to avoid any potential type mistakes.

So, replace the following form:

sizeof(*ai) + nr_groups * sizeof(ai->groups[0])

with:

struct_size(ai, groups, nr_groups)

This code was detected with the help of Coccinelle.

Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@...eddedor.com>
---
 mm/percpu.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/percpu.c b/mm/percpu.c
index 7e2aa0305c27..7e06a1e58720 100644
--- a/mm/percpu.c
+++ b/mm/percpu.c
@@ -2125,7 +2125,7 @@ struct pcpu_alloc_info * __init pcpu_alloc_alloc_info(int nr_groups,
 	void *ptr;
 	int unit;
 
-	base_size = ALIGN(sizeof(*ai) + nr_groups * sizeof(ai->groups[0]),
+	base_size = ALIGN(struct_size(ai, groups, nr_groups),
 			  __alignof__(ai->groups[0].cpu_map[0]));
 	ai_size = base_size + nr_units * sizeof(ai->groups[0].cpu_map[0]);
 
-- 
2.23.0