[PATCH] ima: use struct_size() in kzalloc()
Gustavo A. R. Silva
gustavo at embeddedor.com
Wed May 29 16:53:43 UTC 2019
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[];
};
instance = kzalloc(sizeof(struct foo) + count * sizeof(struct boo), 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 at embeddedor.com>
---
security/integrity/ima/ima_template.c | 5 ++---
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/security/integrity/ima/ima_template.c b/security/integrity/ima/ima_template.c
index b631b8bc7624..b945dff2ed14 100644
--- a/security/integrity/ima/ima_template.c
+++ b/security/integrity/ima/ima_template.c
@@ -281,9 +281,8 @@ static int ima_restore_template_data(struct ima_template_desc *template_desc,
int ret = 0;
int i;
- *entry = kzalloc(sizeof(**entry) +
- template_desc->num_fields * sizeof(struct ima_field_data),
- GFP_NOFS);
+ *entry = kzalloc(struct_size(*entry, template_data,
+ template_desc->num_fields), GFP_NOFS);
if (!*entry)
return -ENOMEM;
--
2.21.0
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