md-linear: use struct_size() in kzalloc()
authorGustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Mon, 7 Jan 2019 17:45:38 +0000 (11:45 -0600)
committerSong Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Mon, 4 Feb 2019 18:37:11 +0000 (10:37 -0800)
commitf1e5b6239bdd46aa3f4e631611800ea7d10826c4
tree8564b4916e81019f3e82981d6dd35151d44da16e
parentbb94aea1444b9859faa8d72aff3713fcd11c6696
md-linear: 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.

Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Signed-off-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
drivers/md/md-linear.c