fs/select.c: use struct_size() in kmalloc()
authorGustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Tue, 16 Jul 2019 23:30:58 +0000 (16:30 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Wed, 17 Jul 2019 02:23:25 +0000 (19:23 -0700)
commit43e11fa2d1d3b6e35629fa556eb7d571edba2010
treee031de3623167cd0fa10f8de744b24627885e4e8
parent79eb597cba06c435b72f220e9d426ae413fc2579
fs/select.c: 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 foo {
       int stuff;
       struct boo entry[];
  };

  size = sizeof(struct foo) + count * sizeof(struct boo);
  instance = kmalloc(size, 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);

Also, notice that variable size is unnecessary, hence it is removed.

This code was detected with the help of Coccinelle.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190604164226.GA13823@embeddedor
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
fs/select.c