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mm/swapfile.c: use struct_size() in kvzalloc()
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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 = kvzalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);

Instead of leaving these open-coded and prone to type mistakes, we can
now use the new struct_size() helper:

  instance = kvzalloc(struct_size(instance, entry, count), GFP_KERNEL);

Notice that, in this case, variable size is not necessary, hence it is
removed.

This code was detected with the help of Coccinelle.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190221154622.GA19599@embeddedor
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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GustavoARSilva authored and torvalds committed Mar 6, 2019
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3 changes: 1 addition & 2 deletions mm/swapfile.c
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Expand Up @@ -2713,9 +2713,8 @@ static struct swap_info_struct *alloc_swap_info(void)
struct swap_info_struct *p;
unsigned int type;
int i;
unsigned int size = sizeof(*p) + nr_node_ids * sizeof(struct plist_node);

p = kvzalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
p = kvzalloc(struct_size(p, avail_lists, nr_node_ids), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!p)
return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);

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