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mtd: gen_probe: Use struct_size() in kmalloc()
authorGustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Tue, 8 Jan 2019 15:36:01 +0000 (09:36 -0600)
committerBoris Brezillon <bbrezillon@kernel.org>
Tue, 15 Jan 2019 19:49:29 +0000 (20:49 +0100)
commit9cb76a6aa1a9524866ec1558f08d044506b707fa
treed58ef13f7262e7ca22d11077856c88e307f3f671
parentf9d27de6fafce7b50a6ca6a7696f3d62aee6808e
mtd: gen_probe: Use struct_size() in kmalloc()

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 = kmalloc(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 = kmalloc(struct_size(instance, entry, count), GFP_KERNEL);

This code was detected with the help of Coccinelle.

Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Signed-off-by: Boris Brezillon <bbrezillon@kernel.org>
drivers/mtd/chips/gen_probe.c