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SubjectRe: [PATCH] clk: imx: imx7ulp: use struct_size() in kzalloc()
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On 1/24/19 1:37 PM, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> Quoting Gustavo A. R. Silva (2018-12-23 22:40:25)
>> 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);
>>
>> This issue was detected with the help of Coccinelle.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
>> ---
>
> Applied to clk-next
>

Thanks, Stephen.

--
Gustavo

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