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Commit f1f8f292 authored by Gustavo A. R. Silva's avatar Gustavo A. R. Silva Committed by Jens Axboe
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block: bio: 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 bio_map_data {
	...
        struct iovec iov[];
};

instance = kmalloc(sizeof(sizeof(struct bio_map_data) + sizeof(struct iovec) *
                          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, iov, count), GFP_KERNEL);

This code was detected with the help of Coccinelle.

Reviewed-by: default avatarKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
parent 78b90a2c
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