Re: [PATCH -next] sched: Use struct_size() helper in task_numa_group()

[Steven Rostedt]

On Tue, 21 Dec 2021 21:21:38 +0800
Xiu Jianfeng <xiujianfeng@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Make use of struct_size() helper instead of an open-coded calculation.
> There is no functional change in this patch.

I'm all for this clean up, but...

> 
> Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/160
> Signed-off-by: Xiu Jianfeng <xiujianfeng@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  kernel/sched/fair.c | 7 ++-----
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> index 095b0aa378df..265e37be0c92 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> @@ -2437,11 +2437,8 @@ static void task_numa_group(struct task_struct *p, int cpupid, int flags,
>  	int i;
>  
>  	if (unlikely(!deref_curr_numa_group(p))) {
> -		unsigned int size = sizeof(struct numa_group) +
> -				    NR_NUMA_HINT_FAULT_STATS *
> -				    nr_node_ids * sizeof(unsigned long);
> -
> -		grp = kzalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOWARN);
> +		grp = kzalloc(struct_size(grp, faults, NR_NUMA_HINT_FAULT_STATS * nr_node_ids),
> +			      GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOWARN);

Ug, the above is so ugly. Why remove the size variable?

		unsigned int size  = struct_size(grp, faults,
					         NR_NUMA_HINT_FAULT_STATS * nr_node_ids);

-- Steve


>  		if (!grp)
>  			return;
>