Re: [PATCH v2 2/8] mm: Add kvmalloc_ab_c and kvzalloc_struct

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 07:40:50PM -0800, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> >     a_foo = kvzalloc_struct_buf(struct foo, struct bar, nr_bars);
> > 
> > or, of course.
> > 
> >     a_foo = kvzalloc_struct_buf(typeof(*a_foo), typeof(a_foo->bar[0]),
> >                                 nr_bars);
> > 
> > or whatever.

This version works, although it's more typing in the callers:

-               attr_group = kvzalloc_struct(attr_group, attrs, i + 1,
+               attr_group = kvzalloc_struct(typeof(*attr_group), attrs, i + 1,
                                                                GFP_KERNEL);
...
-       dev_dax = kvzalloc_struct(dev_dax, res, count, GFP_KERNEL);
+       dev_dax = kvzalloc_struct(struct dev_dax, res, count, GFP_KERNEL);
...
-#define kvzalloc_struct(p, member, n, gfp)                             \
-       (typeof(p))kvzalloc_ab_c(n,                                     \
-               sizeof(*(p)->member) + __must_be_array((p)->member),    \
-               offsetof(typeof(*(p)), member), gfp)
+#define kvzalloc_struct(s, member, n, gfp) ({                          \
+       s *__p;                                                         \
+       (s *)kvzalloc_ab_c(n,                                           \
+               sizeof(*(__p)->member) + __must_be_array((__p)->member),\
+               offsetof(s, member), gfp);                              \
+})

Gives all the same checking as the current version, and doesn't involve
passing an uninitialised pointer to the macro.

It also looks pretty similar:

        p = kvzalloc(sizeof(*p), GFP_KERNEL);
        p = kvzalloc_struct(typeof(*p), array, count, GFP_KERNEL);
        p = kvzalloc_array(sizeof(*p), count);