RDMA: Provide safe ib_alloc_device() function

All callers to ib_alloc_device() provide a larger size than struct
ib_device and rely on the fact that struct ib_device is embedded in their
driver specific structure as the first member.

Provide a safer variant of ib_alloc_device() that checks and enforces this
approach to make sure the drivers are using it right.

Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/core/device.c b/drivers/infiniband/core/device.c
index 200431c540f2..b511cfa00bdb 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/core/device.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/core/device.c
@@ -268,7 +268,7 @@ static struct class ib_class = {
 };
 
 /**
- * ib_alloc_device - allocate an IB device struct
+ * _ib_alloc_device - allocate an IB device struct
  * @size:size of structure to allocate
  *
  * Low-level drivers should use ib_alloc_device() to allocate &struct
@@ -277,7 +277,7 @@ static struct class ib_class = {
  * ib_dealloc_device() must be used to free structures allocated with
  * ib_alloc_device().
  */
-struct ib_device *ib_alloc_device(size_t size)
+struct ib_device *_ib_alloc_device(size_t size)
 {
 	struct ib_device *device;
 
@@ -303,7 +303,7 @@ struct ib_device *ib_alloc_device(size_t size)
 
 	return device;
 }
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(ib_alloc_device);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(_ib_alloc_device);
 
 /**
  * ib_dealloc_device - free an IB device struct