From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com (Alexandre Belloni) Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2018 23:02:43 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] rtc: sun6i: Use struct_size() in kzalloc() In-Reply-To: <20180823185140.GA29028@embeddedor.com> References: <20180823185140.GA29028@embeddedor.com> Message-ID: <20180827210243.GG24549@piout.net> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On 23/08/2018 13:51:40-0500, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote: > One of the more common cases of allocation size calculations is finding > the size of a structure that has a zero-sized array at the end, along > with memory for some number of elements for that array. For example: > > struct foo { > int stuff; > void *entry[]; > }; > > instance = kzalloc(sizeof(struct foo) + sizeof(void *) * count, GFP_KERNEL); > > Instead of leaving these open-coded and prone to type mistakes, we can > now use the new struct_size() helper: > > instance = kzalloc(struct_size(instance, entry, count), GFP_KERNEL); > > Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva > --- > drivers/rtc/rtc-sun6i.c | 3 +-- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) > Applied, thanks. -- Alexandre Belloni, Bootlin Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering https://bootlin.com