[PATCH] gpu: drm: use struct_size() in kmalloc()
Gustavo A. R. Silva
gustavo at embeddedor.com
Tue May 21 12:57:36 UTC 2019
On 5/21/19 3:59 AM, Christian König wrote:
> BTW: Is there actually good documentation how to correctly do the variable length array at end of structure thing in the kernel?
>
> I do know that I've seen a lot of different variants like array[] array[0] or array[1] and I have also seen a bunch of gcc versions failing to generate correct
> code for some of them.
>
> So we should probably nail down how to do things correctly.
>
A flexible array member is the preferred[1] mechanism:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/commit/?h=next-20190520&id=76497732932f15e7323dc805e8ea8dc11bb587cf
Thanks
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Gustavo
[1] https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Zero-Length.html
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