From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [10.30.226.201]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id CC58F1A6822; Fri, 20 Mar 2026 00:16:32 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1773965792; cv=none; b=EYw4x3ekvHOk/FS6hbUW3t7qO8HOB6ZTk4VsMS9tWSZiCEvt/69gehZWfvML+45dP6vVqje/lRuUK25g4uLY5lhGDl+5wwmAHfWWlibhvgAONxIBBlsntUYvX2sMjM5IfJVtiFe8AKrSQQC+mg3E8ZxkXKd+5Z2mBpZaECqigEg= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1773965792; c=relaxed/simple; bh=q0QTKfatk8SajnZ7rG3ZXbS6BU3a/d+gGNwBkEvkzkk=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:In-Reply-To:References: MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=hwg3v7ivo77CU5dlKlVgje2XtD06vMvtp8Au9m8t/gjQRFiPwiCqFvGCr8O1/yC1ElEONHgCa9bnScmFnBgstDLPwC15uHkUARty9HfkDsb8YVfvykLuktsdWw7LILYvN2yukJFzMrPlPYIJYTcNfVx0dQrO52arGxk9ElbU7so= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b=OITthvAC; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b="OITthvAC" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id E5A07C19424; Fri, 20 Mar 2026 00:16:31 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=k20201202; t=1773965792; bh=q0QTKfatk8SajnZ7rG3ZXbS6BU3a/d+gGNwBkEvkzkk=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:From; b=OITthvACZ/ySpjXesS+3DuUVPGcVV4R5xscIhfNopvEBZzpc752zuS+ZT+cj9pbf8 jKEQHC+R1MQIDjGyS9syaEJR7Ky0A1YkRRwy7kcIVpxFPoGVY405RL0tUwEy5xWECI +1Ovn5ClQTyu2EFOYBrFbxAK3i3pwjivU56deEP7mEkC8DusqFLefI76ya0HzycqeQ ajTBTk3zNWSnN3CALM51ToB1hA54ZkVuz8Zw3hqL33Tpm/fwWUnjHOaA64Xq2qycoc IPUj2yhwBTr2aUwGo3kl3TJijyafRC2uR0OXsbfaSa0dHhtO7bXzzsKhHiXEKEIjAv Onsf++wRhxzaA== Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2026 17:16:31 -0700 From: Jakub Kicinski To: Rosen Penev Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, Elad Nachman , Andrew Lunn , "David S. Miller" , Eric Dumazet , Paolo Abeni , Kees Cook , "Gustavo A. R. Silva" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (open list), linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org (open list:KERNEL HARDENING (not covered by other areas):Keyword:\b__counted_by(_le|_be)?\b) Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: marvell: prestera: use kzalloc_flex Message-ID: <20260319171631.65836fe2@kernel.org> In-Reply-To: <20260318192111.6802-1-rosenp@gmail.com> References: <20260318192111.6802-1-rosenp@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Wed, 18 Mar 2026 12:21:11 -0700 Rosen Penev wrote: > Simplify allocation by using a flexible array member in this struct. No > need to free separately. > > Add __counted_by to get extra runtime analysis. Move counting variable > assignment to right after allocation as required by __counted_by. Quoting documentation: Clean-up patches ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Netdev discourages patches which perform simple clean-ups, which are not in the context of other work. See: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/next/process/maintainer-netdev.html#clean-up-patches -- pw-bot: reject