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kernel/gcov/gcc_3_4.c: use struct_size() in kzalloc()
authorGustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Fri, 8 Mar 2019 00:29:47 +0000 (16:29 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fri, 8 Mar 2019 02:32:02 +0000 (18:32 -0800)
commit9abdb50cda0ffe33bbb2e40cbad97b32fb7ff892
tree698fa4965e0e92e94263fdaea28b3f9327d7612c
parent32a5ad9c22852e6bd9e74bdec5934ef9d1480bc5
kernel/gcov/gcc_3_4.c: use struct_size() in kzalloc()

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.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190109172445.GA15908@embeddedor
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
kernel/gcov/gcc_3_4.c