[PATCH 3/3] virtio_ring: Use kmalloc_array() in alloc_indirect()

SF Markus Elfring
Thu, 26 Jan 2017 21:47:59 -0000

Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2017 22:30:45 +0100

* A multiplication for the size determination of a memory allocation
  indicated that an array data structure should be processed.
  Thus use the corresponding function "kmalloc_array".

  This issue was detected by using the Coccinelle software.

* Replace the specification of a data structure by a pointer dereference
  to make the corresponding size determination a bit safer according to
  the Linux coding style convention.

Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring at users.sourceforge.net>
---
 drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c b/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c
index 409aeaa49246..34b6b694298c 100644
--- a/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c
+++ b/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c
@@ -247,8 +247,7 @@ static struct vring_desc *alloc_indirect(struct virtqueue
*_vq,
 	 * virtqueue.
 	 */
 	gfp &= ~__GFP_HIGHMEM;
-
-	desc = kmalloc(total_sg * sizeof(struct vring_desc), gfp);
+	desc = kmalloc_array(total_sg, sizeof(*desc), gfp);
 	if (!desc)
 		return NULL;

--
2.11.0