Re: [PATCH] mtd: rawnand: Prefer struct_size over open coded arithmetic

[Uwe Kleine-König]

On Sat, Feb 10, 2024 at 05:16:19PM +0100, Erick Archer wrote:
> This is an effort to get rid of all multiplications from allocation
> functions in order to prevent integer overflows [1].
> 
> As the "chip" variable is a pointer to "struct mtk_nfc_nand_chip" and
> this structure ends in a flexible array:
> 
> struct mtk_nfc_nand_chip {
> 	[...]
> 	u8 sels[] __counted_by(nsels);
> };
> 
> the preferred way in the kernel is to use the struct_size() helper to
> do the arithmetic instead of the argument "size + count * size" in the
> devm_kzalloc() function.
> 
> This way, the code is more readable and more safer.

Unless you intend this non-English comparative: s/more safer/safer/

Best regards
Uwe

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