Re: [PATCH] objtool: Fix calloc call for new -Walloc-size

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Fri Nov 17 2023 - 04:31:52 EST


On Thu, Nov 09, 2023 at 01:40:30PM -0800, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 07, 2023 at 08:55:00PM +0000, Sam James wrote:
> > GCC 14 introduces a new -Walloc-size included in -Wextra which errors out
> > like:
> > ```
> > check.c: In function ‘cfi_alloc’:
> > check.c:294:33: error: allocation of insufficient size ‘1’ for type ‘struct cfi_state’ with size ‘320’ [-Werror=alloc-size]
> > 294 | struct cfi_state *cfi = calloc(sizeof(struct cfi_state), 1);
> > | ^~~~~~
> > ```
> >
> > The calloc prototype is:
> > ```
> > void *calloc(size_t nmemb, size_t size);
> > ```
> >
> > So, just swap the number of members and size arguments to match the prototype, as
> > we're initialising 1 struct of size `sizeof(struct ...)`. GCC then sees we're not
> > doing anything wrong.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Sam James <sam@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > tools/objtool/check.c | 2 +-
> > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/tools/objtool/check.c b/tools/objtool/check.c
> > index e94756e09ca9..548ec3cd7c00 100644
> > --- a/tools/objtool/check.c
> > +++ b/tools/objtool/check.c
> > @@ -291,7 +291,7 @@ static void init_insn_state(struct objtool_file *file, struct insn_state *state,
> >
> > static struct cfi_state *cfi_alloc(void)
> > {
> > - struct cfi_state *cfi = calloc(sizeof(struct cfi_state), 1);
> > + struct cfi_state *cfi = calloc(1, sizeof(struct cfi_state));
> > if (!cfi) {
> > WARN("calloc failed");
> > exit(1);
>
> Thanks!
>
> Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Peter are you able to grab this or should I put it in my tree first?

Got it, thanks!