From: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>
To: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Cc: Harvey Hunt <harveyhuntnexus@gmail.com>,
Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@bootlin.com>,
Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>,
David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>,
Marek Vasut <marek.vasut@gmail.com>,
linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mtd: rawnand: jz4780: use struct_size() in devm_kzalloc()
Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2018 23:57:50 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180904235750.3e34397d@xps13> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180823193332.GA31602@embeddedor.com>
Hi Gustavo,
"Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@embeddedor.com> wrote on Thu, 23 Aug
2018 14:33:32 -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:
>
> struct foo {
> int stuff;
> void *entry[];
> };
>
> instance = devm_kzalloc(dev, 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 = devm_kzalloc(dev, struct_size(instance, entry, count), GFP_KERNEL);
>
> Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
> ---
> drivers/mtd/nand/raw/jz4780_nand.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/mtd/nand/raw/jz4780_nand.c b/drivers/mtd/nand/raw/jz4780_nand.c
> index db4fa60..ac62395 100644
> --- a/drivers/mtd/nand/raw/jz4780_nand.c
> +++ b/drivers/mtd/nand/raw/jz4780_nand.c
> @@ -352,7 +352,7 @@ static int jz4780_nand_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> return -ENODEV;
> }
>
> - nfc = devm_kzalloc(dev, sizeof(*nfc) + (sizeof(nfc->cs[0]) * num_banks), GFP_KERNEL);
> + nfc = devm_kzalloc(dev, struct_size(nfc, cs, num_banks), GFP_KERNEL);
> if (!nfc)
> return -ENOMEM;
>
Applied to nand/next.
Thanks,
Miquèl
prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-09-04 21:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-08-23 19:33 [PATCH] mtd: rawnand: jz4780: use struct_size() in devm_kzalloc() Gustavo A. R. Silva
2018-08-23 21:27 ` Boris Brezillon
2018-08-23 21:50 ` Kees Cook
2018-09-04 21:57 ` Miquel Raynal [this message]
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