On Fri, 2019-01-11 at 16:46 +0100, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
> On 1/4/19 10:22 PM, Gustavo A. R. Silva 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 code was detected with the help of Coccinelle.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > drivers/scsi/advansys.c | 4 ++--
> > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/scsi/advansys.c b/drivers/scsi/advansys.c
> > index d37584403c33..6c274e6e1c33 100644
> > --- a/drivers/scsi/advansys.c
> > +++ b/drivers/scsi/advansys.c
> > @@ -7576,8 +7576,8 @@ static int asc_build_req(struct asc_board
> > *boardp, struct scsi_cmnd *scp,
> > return ASC_ERROR;
> > }
> >
> > - asc_sg_head = kzalloc(sizeof(asc_scsi_q->sg_head)
> > +
> > - use_sg * sizeof(struct asc_sg_list),
> > GFP_ATOMIC);
> > + asc_sg_head = kzalloc(struct_size(asc_sg_head,
> > sg_list, use_sg),
> > + GFP_ATOMIC);
> > if (!asc_sg_head) {
> > scsi_dma_unmap(scp);
> > scp->result = HOST_BYTE(DID_SOFT_ERROR);
> >
>
> If you want ...
Are we sure there's a benefit to this? It's obvious that the current
code is correct but no-one's likely to test the new code for quite some
time, so changing the code introduces risk. What's the benefit of
making the change in legacy drivers? Just because we have a new, shiny
macro doesn't mean we have to force its use everywhere.
I would recommend we have a rational needs test: so run the coccinelle
script over all the drivers to find out where this construct is used,
but only update those that are actually buggy with the new macro.
James
