[PATCH] drm/xe: Prefer struct_size over open coded arithmetic
Gustavo A. R. Silva
gustavo at embeddedor.com
Sat Feb 10 16:49:57 UTC 2024
On 2/10/24 08:19, Erick Archer wrote:
> This is an effort to get rid of all multiplications from allocation
> functions in order to prevent integer overflows [1].
>
> As the "q" variable is a pointer to "struct xe_exec_queue" and this
> structure ends in a flexible array:
>
> struct xe_exec_queue {
> [...]
> struct xe_lrc lrc[];
> };
>
> the preferred way in the kernel is to use the struct_size() helper to
> do the arithmetic instead of the argument "size + size * count" in the
> kzalloc() function.
>
> This way, the code is more readable and more safer.
>
> Link: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#open-coded-arithmetic-in-allocator-arguments [1]
> Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/160 [2]
> Signed-off-by: Erick Archer <erick.archer at gmx.com>
LGTM:
Reviewed-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars at kernel.org>
Thanks!
--
Gustavo
> ---
> drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_exec_queue.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_exec_queue.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_exec_queue.c
> index bcfc4127c7c5..f4e53cbccd04 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_exec_queue.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_exec_queue.c
> @@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ static struct xe_exec_queue *__xe_exec_queue_create(struct xe_device *xe,
> /* only kernel queues can be permanent */
> XE_WARN_ON((flags & EXEC_QUEUE_FLAG_PERMANENT) && !(flags & EXEC_QUEUE_FLAG_KERNEL));
>
> - q = kzalloc(sizeof(*q) + sizeof(struct xe_lrc) * width, GFP_KERNEL);
> + q = kzalloc(struct_size(q, lrc, width), GFP_KERNEL);
> if (!q)
> return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
>
> --
> 2.25.1
>
>
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