Re: [PATCH][next] dmaengine: ti: k3-udma: Use struct_size() in kzalloc()

[Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>]

On Wed, 2020-06-24 at 11:25 +0530, Vinod Koul wrote:
> On 19-06-20, 17:43, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
> > Make use of the struct_size() helper instead of an open-coded version
> > in order to avoid any potential type mistakes.
> > 
> > This code was detected with the help of Coccinelle and, audited and
> > fixed manually.
> > 
> > Addresses-KSPP-ID: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/83

Is this odd tag really useful?

> > Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>
> > ---
> >  drivers/dma/ti/k3-udma.c | 4 ++--
> >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/dma/ti/k3-udma.c b/drivers/dma/ti/k3-udma.c
> > index 0d5fb154b8e2..411c54b86ba8 100644
> > --- a/drivers/dma/ti/k3-udma.c
> > +++ b/drivers/dma/ti/k3-udma.c
> > @@ -2209,7 +2209,7 @@ udma_prep_slave_sg_pkt(struct udma_chan *uc, struct scatterlist *sgl,
> >  	u32 ring_id;
> >  	unsigned int i;
> >  
> > -	d = kzalloc(sizeof(*d) + sglen * sizeof(d->hwdesc[0]), GFP_NOWAIT);
> > +	d = kzalloc(struct_size(d, hwdesc, sglen), GFP_NOWAIT);
> 
> struct_size() is a * b + c but here we need, a + b * c.. the trailing
> struct is N times here..
> 
> 
> >  	if (!d)
> >  		return NULL;
> >  
> > @@ -2525,7 +2525,7 @@ udma_prep_dma_cyclic_pkt(struct udma_chan *uc, dma_addr_t buf_addr,
> >  	if (period_len >= SZ_4M)
> >  		return NULL;
> >  
> > -	d = kzalloc(sizeof(*d) + periods * sizeof(d->hwdesc[0]), GFP_NOWAIT);
> > +	d = kzalloc(struct_size(d, hwdesc, periods), GFP_NOWAIT);
> >  	if (!d)
> >  		return NULL;
> >  
> > -- 
> > 2.27.0