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dm switch: use struct_size() in kzalloc()

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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@embeddedor.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
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Gustavo A. R. Silva 2019-01-08 10:02:33 -06:00 committed by Mike Snitzer
parent e689fbab3d
commit d2832376b6
1 changed files with 1 additions and 2 deletions
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@ -61,8 +61,7 @@ static struct switch_ctx *alloc_switch_ctx(struct dm_target *ti, unsigned nr_pat
{
struct switch_ctx *sctx;
sctx = kzalloc(sizeof(struct switch_ctx) + nr_paths * sizeof(struct switch_path),
GFP_KERNEL);
sctx = kzalloc(struct_size(sctx, path_list, nr_paths), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!sctx)
return NULL;