linux-kernel - [PATCH][next] x86/mce/dev-mcelog: Use struct

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Message-ID: <20200617211734.GA9636@embeddedor>
Date:   Wed, 17 Jun 2020 16:17:34 -0500
From:   "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@...nel.org>
To:     Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:     x86@...nel.org, linux-edac@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@...eddedor.com>
Subject: [PATCH][next] x86/mce/dev-mcelog: Use struct_size() helper in
 kzalloc()

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

This code was detected with the help of Coccinelle and, audited and
fixed manually.

Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@...nel.org>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mce/dev-mcelog.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mce/dev-mcelog.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mce/dev-mcelog.c
index 43c466020ed5..03e51053592a 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mce/dev-mcelog.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mce/dev-mcelog.c
@@ -345,7 +345,7 @@ static __init int dev_mcelog_init_device(void)
 	int err;
 
 	mce_log_len = max(MCE_LOG_MIN_LEN, num_online_cpus());
-	mcelog = kzalloc(sizeof(*mcelog) + mce_log_len * sizeof(struct mce), GFP_KERNEL);
+	mcelog = kzalloc(struct_size(mcelog, entry, mce_log_len), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!mcelog)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
-- 
2.27.0