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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>,
	"moderated list:ARM/STI ARCHITECTURE"
	<linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
	open list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	open "list:KERNEL" HARDENING "(not" covered by other
	"areas):Keyword:b__counted_by(_le|_be)?b"
	<linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org>
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)) {


  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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