[PATCH] video: fbdev-MMP: Use struct_size() in devm_kzalloc()
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
b.zolnierkie at samsung.com
Fri Jun 21 12:40:35 UTC 2019
On 6/5/19 1:32 AM, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
> 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;
> struct boo entry[];
> };
>
> size = sizeof(struct foo) + count * sizeof(struct boo);
> instance = devm_kzalloc(dev, size, 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);
>
> Notice that, in this case, variable size is not necessary, hence it
> is removed.
>
> This code was detected with the help of Coccinelle.
>
> Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo at embeddedor.com>
Patch queued for v5.3, thanks.
Best regards,
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Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Samsung R&D Institute Poland
Samsung Electronics
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