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SubjectRe: [PATCH] mtd: rawnand: jz4780: use struct_size() in devm_kzalloc()
Hi Gustavo,

"Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@embeddedor.com> wrote on Thu, 23 Aug
2018 14:33:32 -0500:

> 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 = devm_kzalloc(dev, 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 = devm_kzalloc(dev, struct_size(instance, entry, count), GFP_KERNEL);
>
> Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
> ---
> drivers/mtd/nand/raw/jz4780_nand.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/mtd/nand/raw/jz4780_nand.c b/drivers/mtd/nand/raw/jz4780_nand.c
> index db4fa60..ac62395 100644
> --- a/drivers/mtd/nand/raw/jz4780_nand.c
> +++ b/drivers/mtd/nand/raw/jz4780_nand.c
> @@ -352,7 +352,7 @@ static int jz4780_nand_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> return -ENODEV;
> }
>
> - nfc = devm_kzalloc(dev, sizeof(*nfc) + (sizeof(nfc->cs[0]) * num_banks), GFP_KERNEL);
> + nfc = devm_kzalloc(dev, struct_size(nfc, cs, num_banks), GFP_KERNEL);
> if (!nfc)
> return -ENOMEM;
>

Applied to nand/next.

Thanks,
Miquèl

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