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[90.8.158.167]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id b18sm15138014wmj.41.2020.11.02.07.20.41 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Mon, 02 Nov 2020 07:20:42 -0800 (PST) From: Bartosz Golaszewski To: Andy Shevchenko , Sumit Semwal , Gustavo Padovan , =?utf-8?q?Christian_K=C3=B6nig?= , Mauro Carvalho Chehab , Borislav Petkov , Tony Luck , James Morse , Robert Richter , Maarten Lankhorst , Maxime Ripard , Thomas Zimmermann , David Airlie , Daniel Vetter , Alexander Shishkin , Linus Walleij , "Michael S . Tsirkin" , Jason Wang , Christoph Lameter , Pekka Enberg , David Rientjes , Joonsoo Kim , Andrew Morton , Jaroslav Kysela , Takashi Iwai Cc: linux-media@vger.kernel.org, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, linaro-mm-sig@lists.linaro.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-edac@vger.kernel.org, linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, Bartosz Golaszewski , Vlastimil Babka Subject: [PATCH v2 1/8] mm: slab: provide krealloc_array() Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2020 16:20:30 +0100 Message-Id: <20201102152037.963-2-brgl@bgdev.pl> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.29.1 In-Reply-To: <20201102152037.963-1-brgl@bgdev.pl> References: <20201102152037.963-1-brgl@bgdev.pl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-media@vger.kernel.org X-LSpam-Score: -2.4 (--) X-LSpam-Report: No, score=-2.4 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00=-1.9,DKIM_SIGNED=0.1,DKIM_VALID=-0.1,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.5,MAILING_LIST_MULTI=-1 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no From: Bartosz Golaszewski When allocating an array of elements, users should check for multiplication overflow or preferably use one of the provided helpers like: kmalloc_array(). There's no krealloc_array() counterpart but there are many users who use regular krealloc() to reallocate arrays. Let's provide an actual krealloc_array() implementation. While at it: add some documentation regarding krealloc. Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka --- Documentation/core-api/memory-allocation.rst | 4 ++++ include/linux/slab.h | 18 ++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 22 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/core-api/memory-allocation.rst b/Documentation/core-api/memory-allocation.rst index 4446a1ac36cc..6dc38b40439a 100644 --- a/Documentation/core-api/memory-allocation.rst +++ b/Documentation/core-api/memory-allocation.rst @@ -147,6 +147,10 @@ The address of a chunk allocated with `kmalloc` is aligned to at least ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN bytes. For sizes which are a power of two, the alignment is also guaranteed to be at least the respective size. +Chunks allocated with `kmalloc` can be resized with `krealloc`. Similarly +to `kmalloc_array`: a helper for resising arrays is provided in the form of +`krealloc_array`. + For large allocations you can use vmalloc() and vzalloc(), or directly request pages from the page allocator. The memory allocated by `vmalloc` and related functions is not physically contiguous. diff --git a/include/linux/slab.h b/include/linux/slab.h index dd6897f62010..be4ba5867ac5 100644 --- a/include/linux/slab.h +++ b/include/linux/slab.h @@ -592,6 +592,24 @@ static inline void *kmalloc_array(size_t n, size_t size, gfp_t flags) return __kmalloc(bytes, flags); } +/** + * krealloc_array - reallocate memory for an array. + * @p: pointer to the memory chunk to reallocate + * @new_n: new number of elements to alloc + * @new_size: new size of a single member of the array + * @flags: the type of memory to allocate (see kmalloc) + */ +static __must_check inline void * +krealloc_array(void *p, size_t new_n, size_t new_size, gfp_t flags) +{ + size_t bytes; + + if (unlikely(check_mul_overflow(new_n, new_size, &bytes))) + return NULL; + + return krealloc(p, bytes, flags); +} + /** * kcalloc - allocate memory for an array. The memory is set to zero. * @n: number of elements.