[PATCH] mISDN: hfcsusb: Use struct_size() in kzalloc()

From: Gustavo A. R. Silva
Date: Tue Jan 08 2019 - 16:27:10 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/isdn/hardware/mISDN/hfcsusb.c | 3 +--
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/isdn/hardware/mISDN/hfcsusb.c b/drivers/isdn/hardware/mISDN/hfcsusb.c
index 6d05946b445e..124ff530da82 100644
--- a/drivers/isdn/hardware/mISDN/hfcsusb.c
+++ b/drivers/isdn/hardware/mISDN/hfcsusb.c
@@ -262,8 +262,7 @@ hfcsusb_ph_info(struct hfcsusb *hw)
struct dchannel *dch = &hw->dch;
int i;

- phi = kzalloc(sizeof(struct ph_info) +
- dch->dev.nrbchan * sizeof(struct ph_info_ch), GFP_ATOMIC);
+ phi = kzalloc(struct_size(phi, bch, dch->dev.nrbchan), GFP_ATOMIC);
phi->dch.ch.protocol = hw->protocol;
phi->dch.ch.Flags = dch->Flags;
phi->dch.state = dch->state;
--
2.20.1