[PATCH] dmaengine: bcm2835: Use struct_size() in kzalloc()

From: Gustavo A. R. Silva
Date: Fri Jan 04 2019 - 13:51:32 EST


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;
void *entry[];
};

instance = kzalloc(sizeof(struct foo) + sizeof(void *) * count, 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/dma/bcm2835-dma.c | 3 +--
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/dma/bcm2835-dma.c b/drivers/dma/bcm2835-dma.c
index 1a44c8086d77..7beec403c2c9 100644
--- a/drivers/dma/bcm2835-dma.c
+++ b/drivers/dma/bcm2835-dma.c
@@ -312,8 +312,7 @@ static struct bcm2835_desc *bcm2835_dma_create_cb_chain(
return NULL;

/* allocate and setup the descriptor. */
- d = kzalloc(sizeof(*d) + frames * sizeof(struct bcm2835_cb_entry),
- gfp);
+ d = kzalloc(struct_size(d, cb_list, frames), gfp);
if (!d)
return NULL;

--
2.20.1