Re: [PATCH] scsi: advansys: use struct_size() in kzalloc()

From: Hannes Reinecke
Date: Fri Jan 11 2019 - 10:46:50 EST


On 1/4/19 10:22 PM, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
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/scsi/advansys.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/scsi/advansys.c b/drivers/scsi/advansys.c
index d37584403c33..6c274e6e1c33 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/advansys.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/advansys.c
@@ -7576,8 +7576,8 @@ static int asc_build_req(struct asc_board *boardp, struct scsi_cmnd *scp,
return ASC_ERROR;
}
- asc_sg_head = kzalloc(sizeof(asc_scsi_q->sg_head) +
- use_sg * sizeof(struct asc_sg_list), GFP_ATOMIC);
+ asc_sg_head = kzalloc(struct_size(asc_sg_head, sg_list, use_sg),
+ GFP_ATOMIC);
if (!asc_sg_head) {
scsi_dma_unmap(scp);
scp->result = HOST_BYTE(DID_SOFT_ERROR);

If you want ...

Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@xxxxxxxx>

Cheers,

Hannes