From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF8B7C433F5 for ; Tue, 4 Sep 2018 21:58:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 879012077C for ; Tue, 4 Sep 2018 21:58:30 +0000 (UTC) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 mail.kernel.org 879012077C Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=bootlin.com Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; spf=none smtp.mailfrom=linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1727485AbeIECZc convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Sep 2018 22:25:32 -0400 Received: from mail.bootlin.com ([62.4.15.54]:54723 "EHLO mail.bootlin.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1727023AbeIECZc (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Sep 2018 22:25:32 -0400 Received: by mail.bootlin.com (Postfix, from userid 110) id 76CEB208BE; Tue, 4 Sep 2018 23:58:28 +0200 (CEST) Received: from xps13 (unknown [91.224.148.103]) by mail.bootlin.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id BFE2A207B4; Tue, 4 Sep 2018 23:58:17 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2018 23:58:16 +0200 From: Miquel Raynal To: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" Cc: Josh Wu , Boris Brezillon , Richard Weinberger , David Woodhouse , Brian Norris , Marek Vasut , Nicolas Ferre , Alexandre Belloni , linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Kees Cook Subject: Re: [PATCH] mtd: rawnand: atmel: use struct_size() in devm_kzalloc() Message-ID: <20180904235816.4b239b7a@xps13> In-Reply-To: <20180824010938.GA25581@embeddedor.com> References: <20180824010938.GA25581@embeddedor.com> Organization: Bootlin X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.16.0 (GTK+ 2.24.32; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Gustavo, "Gustavo A. R. Silva" 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: > > 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); > > This issue was detected with the help of Coccinelle. > > Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva > --- Applied to nand/next. Thanks, Miquèl