Thread (5 messages) 5 messages, 3 authors, 2018-08-27

[PATCH] rtc: sun6i: Use struct_size() in kzalloc()

From: alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com (Alexandre Belloni)
Date: 2018-08-27 21:02:47
Also in: linux-rtc, lkml

On 23/08/2018 13:51:40-0500, 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;
        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);

Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <redacted>
---
 drivers/rtc/rtc-sun6i.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
Applied, thanks.

-- 
Alexandre Belloni, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com
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