Re: [PATCH][next] dmaengine: ti: k3-udma: Use struct_size() in kzalloc()

From: Gustavo A. R. Silva
Date: Wed Jun 24 2020 - 13:27:57 EST


Hi Vinod,

On 6/24/20 00:55, Vinod Koul wrote:
> On 19-06-20, 17:43, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
>> Make use of the struct_size() helper instead of an open-coded version
>> in order to avoid any potential type mistakes.
>>
>> This code was detected with the help of Coccinelle and, audited and
>> fixed manually.
>>
>> Addresses-KSPP-ID: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/83
>> Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> drivers/dma/ti/k3-udma.c | 4 ++--
>> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/dma/ti/k3-udma.c b/drivers/dma/ti/k3-udma.c
>> index 0d5fb154b8e2..411c54b86ba8 100644
>> --- a/drivers/dma/ti/k3-udma.c
>> +++ b/drivers/dma/ti/k3-udma.c
>> @@ -2209,7 +2209,7 @@ udma_prep_slave_sg_pkt(struct udma_chan *uc, struct scatterlist *sgl,
>> u32 ring_id;
>> unsigned int i;
>>
>> - d = kzalloc(sizeof(*d) + sglen * sizeof(d->hwdesc[0]), GFP_NOWAIT);
>> + d = kzalloc(struct_size(d, hwdesc, sglen), GFP_NOWAIT);
>
> struct_size() is a * b + c but here we need, a + b * c.. the trailing
> struct is N times here..
>

struct_size() works exactly as expected in this case. :)
Please, see:

include/linux/overflow.h:314:
314 #define struct_size(p, member, count) \
315 __ab_c_size(count, \
316 sizeof(*(p)->member) + __must_be_array((p)->member),\
317 sizeof(*(p)))
318

Thanks
--
Gustavo

>> if (!d)
>> return NULL;
>>
>> @@ -2525,7 +2525,7 @@ udma_prep_dma_cyclic_pkt(struct udma_chan *uc, dma_addr_t buf_addr,
>> if (period_len >= SZ_4M)
>> return NULL;
>>
>> - d = kzalloc(sizeof(*d) + periods * sizeof(d->hwdesc[0]), GFP_NOWAIT);
>> + d = kzalloc(struct_size(d, hwdesc, periods), GFP_NOWAIT);
>> if (!d)
>> return NULL;
>>
>> --
>> 2.27.0
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