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Date:   Thu, 23 May 2019 17:36:00 -0500
From:   "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@...eddedor.com>
To:     Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@...cle.com>
Cc:     Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@...merspace.com>,
        Anna Schumaker <anna.schumaker@...app.com>,
        Bruce Fields <bfields@...ldses.org>,
        Jeff Layton <jlayton@...nel.org>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Linux NFS Mailing List <linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org>,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] xprtrdma: Use struct_size() in kzalloc()

Hi Dave,

I wonder if you can take this patch.

Thanks
--
Gustavo

On 3/28/19 3:41 PM, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Friendly ping:
> 
> Who can take this?
> 
> Thanks
> --
> Gustavo
> 
> On 1/31/19 8:11 AM, Chuck Lever wrote:
>>
>>
>>> On Jan 30, 2019, at 7:46 PM, Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@...eddedor.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> 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>
>>
>> Reviewed-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@...cle.com>
>>
>>
>>> ---
>>> net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/verbs.c | 3 +--
>>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/verbs.c b/net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/verbs.c
>>> index 4994e75945b8..9e8cf7456840 100644
>>> --- a/net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/verbs.c
>>> +++ b/net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/verbs.c
>>> @@ -811,8 +811,7 @@ static struct rpcrdma_sendctx *rpcrdma_sendctx_create(struct rpcrdma_ia *ia)
>>> {
>>> 	struct rpcrdma_sendctx *sc;
>>>
>>> -	sc = kzalloc(sizeof(*sc) +
>>> -		     ia->ri_max_send_sges * sizeof(struct ib_sge),
>>> +	sc = kzalloc(struct_size(sc, sc_sges, ia->ri_max_send_sges),
>>> 		     GFP_KERNEL);
>>> 	if (!sc)
>>> 		return NULL;
>>> -- 
>>> 2.20.1
>>>
>>
>> --
>> Chuck Lever
>>
>>
>>