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authorGustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>2019-06-10 16:22:19 -0500
committerSteven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>2019-06-17 21:13:32 -0400
commitf0553dcb9778c343641d3a41f1db01be02e7551b (patch)
tree57bd41c1a8ec0429b3f42ab6578743d9f6c8ee89 /kernel
parent86b3de60a0b634cdcef82d0a2091bc5444a00020 (diff)
tracepoint: Use struct_size() in kmalloc()
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 tp_probes { ... struct tracepoint_func probes[0]; }; instance = kmalloc(sizeof(sizeof(struct tp_probes) + sizeof(struct tracepoint_func) * count, GFP_KERNEL); Instead of leaving these open-coded and prone to type mistakes, we can now use the new struct_size() helper: instance = kmalloc(struct_size(instance, probes, 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: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/tracepoint.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/tracepoint.c b/kernel/tracepoint.c
index 46f2ab1e08a9..fb9353ed901b 100644
--- a/kernel/tracepoint.c
+++ b/kernel/tracepoint.c
@@ -68,8 +68,8 @@ struct tp_probes {
static inline void *allocate_probes(int count)
{
- struct tp_probes *p = kmalloc(count * sizeof(struct tracepoint_func)
- + sizeof(struct tp_probes), GFP_KERNEL);
+ struct tp_probes *p = kmalloc(struct_size(p, probes, count),
+ GFP_KERNEL);
return p == NULL ? NULL : p->probes;
}