Hi Gustavo.
On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 12:56:47PM -0500, 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.
>
> Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@xxxxxxxxxx>
struct_size is defined in overflow.h - which is not included by fs.h.
So we rely on overflow.h being pulled in by some other header - maybe
slab.h in this case.
Seems fragile, should this patch add an include of overflow.h?
Sam
> ---
> include/linux/fb.h | 5 +++--
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/fb.h b/include/linux/fb.h
> index 3b4b2f0c6994..2b530e6d86e4 100644
> --- a/include/linux/fb.h
> +++ b/include/linux/fb.h
> @@ -506,8 +506,9 @@ struct fb_info {
> };
>
> static inline struct apertures_struct *alloc_apertures(unsigned int max_num) {
> - struct apertures_struct *a = kzalloc(sizeof(struct apertures_struct)
> - + max_num * sizeof(struct aperture), GFP_KERNEL);
> + struct apertures_struct *a;
> +
> + a = kzalloc(struct_size(a, ranges, max_num), GFP_KERNEL);
> if (!a)
> return NULL;
> a->count = max_num;
> --
> 2.27.0
>
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