Re: [PATCH 2/2] mfd: sm501: Use struct_size() in devm_kzalloc()

From: Lee Jones
Date: Wed Jan 30 2019 - 08:35:45 EST


On Tue, 22 Jan 2019, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:

> 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;
> struct boo entry[];
> };
>
> instance = devm_kzalloc(dev, sizeof(struct foo) + count * sizeof(struct boo), 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 code was detected with the help of Coccinelle.
>
> Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/mfd/sm501.c | 3 +--
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

Applied, thanks.

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