Re: [PATCH] mm: memcontrol: use struct_size() in kmalloc()

[Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>]

Cc Andrew (original patch is here http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190104183726.GA6374@embeddedor)

On Fri 04-01-19 12:37:26, 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 = kmalloc(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 = kmalloc(struct_size(instance, entry, count), GFP_KERNEL);

This looks indeed neater

> This code was detected with the help of Coccinelle.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>

Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>

Thanks

> ---
>  mm/memcontrol.c | 3 +--
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
> index af7f18b32389..ad256cf7da47 100644
> --- a/mm/memcontrol.c
> +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
> @@ -3626,8 +3626,7 @@ static int __mem_cgroup_usage_register_event(struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
>  	size = thresholds->primary ? thresholds->primary->size + 1 : 1;
>  
>  	/* Allocate memory for new array of thresholds */
> -	new = kmalloc(sizeof(*new) + size * sizeof(struct mem_cgroup_threshold),
> -			GFP_KERNEL);
> +	new = kmalloc(struct_size(new, entries, size), GFP_KERNEL);
>  	if (!new) {
>  		ret = -ENOMEM;
>  		goto unlock;
> -- 
> 2.20.1

-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs