The patch titled
Subject: fs/select.c: use struct_size() in kmalloc()
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
fs-select-use-struct_size-in-kmalloc.patch
This patch should soon appear at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/fs-select-use-struct_size-in-kmalloc.patch
and later at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/fs-select-use-struct_size-in-kmalloc.patch
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From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/select.c | 6 +++---
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
--- a/fs/select.c~fs-select-use-struct_size-in-kmalloc
+++ a/fs/select.c
@@ -965,7 +965,7 @@ static int do_sys_poll(struct pollfd __u
struct timespec64 *end_time)
{
struct poll_wqueues table;
- int err = -EFAULT, fdcount, len, size;
+ int err = -EFAULT, fdcount, len;
/* Allocate small arguments on the stack to save memory and be
faster - use long to make sure the buffer is aligned properly
on 64 bit archs to avoid unaligned access */
@@ -993,8 +993,8 @@ static int do_sys_poll(struct pollfd __u
break;
len = min(todo, POLLFD_PER_PAGE);
- size = sizeof(struct poll_list) + sizeof(struct pollfd) * len;
- walk = walk->next = kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
+ walk = walk->next = kmalloc(struct_size(walk, entries, len),
+ GFP_KERNEL);
if (!walk) {
err = -ENOMEM;
goto out_fds;
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from gustavo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
fs-select-use-struct_size-in-kmalloc.patch
