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Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2018 23:58:16 +0200
From: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>
To: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] mtd: rawnand: atmel: use struct_size() in devm_kzalloc()
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Hi Gustavo,

"Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@embeddedor.com> wrote on Thu, 23 Aug
2018 20:09:38 -0500:

> 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:
>=20
> struct foo {
> 	int stuff;
>         void *entry[];
> };
>=20
> instance =3D devm_kzalloc(dev, sizeof(struct foo) + sizeof(void *) * coun=
t, GFP_KERNEL);
>=20
> Instead of leaving these open-coded and prone to type mistakes, we can
> now use the new struct_size() helper:
>=20
> instance =3D devm_kzalloc(dev, struct_size(instance, entry, count), GFP_K=
ERNEL);
>=20
> This issue was detected with the help of Coccinelle.
>=20
> Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
> ---

Applied to nand/next.

Thanks,
Miqu=C3=A8l