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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2] mtd: rawnand: Prefer struct_size over open coded arithmetic
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On Sun, 2024-02-11 at 09:16:33 UTC, 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 safer.
>
> Link: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#open-coded-arithmetic-in-allocator-arguments [1]
> Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/160 [2]
> Reviewed-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Erick Archer <erick.archer@gmx.com>
> Acked-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
> Reviewed-by: AngeloGioacchino Del Regno <angelogioacchino.delregno@collabora.com>
> Reviewed-by: Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@gmail.com>

Applied to https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mtd/linux.git nand/next, thanks.

Miquel

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