From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
To: Rosen Penev <rosenp@gmail.com>, linux-phy@lists.infradead.org
Cc: Patrice Chotard <patrice.chotard@foss.st.com>,
Vinod Koul <vkoul@kernel.org>,
Neil Armstrong <neil.armstrong@linaro.org>,
Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>,
"Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@kernel.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] phy: miphy28lp: kzalloc + kcalloc to single kzalloc
Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2026 13:27:49 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <72e8b51c-4dcc-4c42-9e26-8ad8f9299c76@embeddedor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260304232848.469446-1-rosenp@gmail.com>
On 3/5/26 08:28, Rosen Penev wrote:
> Use flex array to simplify allocation.
>
> Allows using __counted_by for extra runtime analysis.
>
> Signed-off-by: Rosen Penev <rosenp@gmail.com>
> ---
> drivers/phy/st/phy-miphy28lp.c | 12 +++++-------
> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/phy/st/phy-miphy28lp.c b/drivers/phy/st/phy-miphy28lp.c
> index 43cef89af55e..fd931ede7162 100644
> --- a/drivers/phy/st/phy-miphy28lp.c
> +++ b/drivers/phy/st/phy-miphy28lp.c
> @@ -224,8 +224,8 @@ struct miphy28lp_dev {
> struct device *dev;
> struct regmap *regmap;
> struct mutex miphy_mutex;
> - struct miphy28lp_phy **phys;
> int nphys;
> + struct miphy28lp_phy *phys[] __counted_by(nphys);
> };
>
> enum miphy_sata_gen { SATA_GEN1, SATA_GEN2, SATA_GEN3 };
> @@ -1168,16 +1168,14 @@ static int miphy28lp_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> struct phy_provider *provider;
> struct phy *phy;
> int ret, port = 0;
> + size_t nphys;
>
> - miphy_dev = devm_kzalloc(&pdev->dev, sizeof(*miphy_dev), GFP_KERNEL);
> + nphys = of_get_child_count(np);
> + miphy_dev = devm_kzalloc(&pdev->dev, struct_size(wiphy_dev, phys, nphys) ,TGFP_KERNEL);
This is bad... it looks like you didn't build any of these patches.
-Gustavo
> if (!miphy_dev)
> return -ENOMEM;
>
> - miphy_dev->nphys = of_get_child_count(np);
> - miphy_dev->phys = devm_kcalloc(&pdev->dev, miphy_dev->nphys,
> - sizeof(*miphy_dev->phys), GFP_KERNEL);
> - if (!miphy_dev->phys)
> - return -ENOMEM;
> + miphy_dev->nphys = nphys;
>
> miphy_dev->regmap = syscon_regmap_lookup_by_phandle(np, "st,syscfg");
> if (IS_ERR(miphy_dev->regmap)) {
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-03-06 19:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-03-04 23:28 [PATCH] phy: miphy28lp: kzalloc + kcalloc to single kzalloc Rosen Penev
2026-03-06 4:27 ` Gustavo A. R. Silva [this message]
2026-03-06 19:36 ` Rosen Penev
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