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SubjectRe: [PATCH] clk: npcm7xx: fix memory allocation
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Quoting Gustavo A. R. Silva (2018-08-23 16:06:54)
> 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;
> void *entry[];
> };
>
> instance = kzalloc(sizeof(struct foo) + sizeof(void *) * count,
> GFP_KERNEL);
>
> Instead of leaving these open-coded and prone to type mistakes, we can
> now use the new struct_size() helper:
>
> instance = kzalloc(struct_size(instance, entry, count), GFP_KERNEL);
>
> Notice that, currently, there is a bug during the allocation:
>
> sizeof(npcm7xx_clk_data) should be sizeof(*npcm7xx_clk_data)
>
> Fix this bug by using struct_size() in kzalloc()
>
> This issue was detected with the help of Coccinelle.
>
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
> ---

Applied to clk-fixes

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