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From:   Amit Kucheria <amit.kucheria@verdurent.com>
Date:   Tue, 29 Jan 2019 10:56:09 +0530
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivers: qcom: rpmh: use struct_size() in kzalloc()
To:     "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Cc:     Andy Gross <andy.gross@linaro.org>,
        David Brown <david.brown@linaro.org>,
        linux-arm-msm <linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org>,
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On Mon, Dec 24, 2018 at 11:52 AM Gustavo A. R. Silva
<gustavo@embeddedor.com> 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 = 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 issue was detected with the help of Coccinelle.
>
> Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>

Reviewed-by: Amit Kucheria <amit.kucheria@linaro.org>

> ---
>  drivers/soc/qcom/rpmh.c | 3 +--
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/soc/qcom/rpmh.c b/drivers/soc/qcom/rpmh.c
> index c7beb6841289..12c057a0b325 100644
> --- a/drivers/soc/qcom/rpmh.c
> +++ b/drivers/soc/qcom/rpmh.c
> @@ -362,8 +362,7 @@ int rpmh_write_batch(const struct device *dev, enum rpmh_state state,
>         if (!count)
>                 return -EINVAL;
>
> -       req = kzalloc(sizeof(*req) + count * sizeof(req->rpm_msgs[0]),
> -                     GFP_ATOMIC);
> +       req = kzalloc(struct_size(req, rpm_msgs, count), GFP_ATOMIC);
>         if (!req)
>                 return -ENOMEM;
>         req->count = count;
> --
> 2.17.0
>