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From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2019 19:18:25 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] dm raid1: use struct_size() with kzalloc()
Git-commit: bcd676542cdd44b3a91e0b695cc1d7a1d35679cd
Patch-mainline: v5.4-rc1
References: bsc#1175995,jsc#SLE-15608

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 mirror_set {
	...
        struct mirror mirror[0];
};

size = sizeof(struct mirror_set) + count * sizeof(struct mirror);
instance = kzalloc(size, 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, mirror, count), GFP_KERNEL)

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

This code was detected with the help of Coccinelle.

Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
---
 drivers/md/dm-raid1.c | 7 ++-----
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-raid1.c b/drivers/md/dm-raid1.c
index 5a51151f680d..089aed57e083 100644
--- a/drivers/md/dm-raid1.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-raid1.c
@@ -878,12 +878,9 @@ static struct mirror_set *alloc_context(unsigned int nr_mirrors,
 					struct dm_target *ti,
 					struct dm_dirty_log *dl)
 {
-	size_t len;
-	struct mirror_set *ms = NULL;
-
-	len = sizeof(*ms) + (sizeof(ms->mirror[0]) * nr_mirrors);
+	struct mirror_set *ms =
+		kzalloc(struct_size(ms, mirror, nr_mirrors), GFP_KERNEL);
 
-	ms = kzalloc(len, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!ms) {
 		ti->error = "Cannot allocate mirror context";
 		return NULL;
-- 
2.16.4