Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] clk: imx: imx7ulp: use struct_size() in kzalloc() | From | Stephen Boyd <> | Date | Thu, 24 Jan 2019 11:37:56 -0800 |
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Quoting Gustavo A. R. Silva (2018-12-23 22:40:25) > 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); > > This issue was detected with the help of Coccinelle. > > Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com> > ---
Applied to clk-next
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