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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>
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Gustavo A. R. Silva 2019-01-08 09:36:01 -06:00 committed by Boris Brezillon
parent f9d27de6fa
commit 9cb76a6aa1
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drivers/mtd/chips/gen_probe.c
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@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ static struct cfi_private *genprobe_ident_chips(struct map_info *map, struct chi
* our caller, and copy the appropriate data into them.
*/
retcfi = kmalloc(sizeof(struct cfi_private) + cfi.numchips * sizeof(struct flchip), GFP_KERNEL);
retcfi = kmalloc(struct_size(retcfi, chips, cfi.numchips), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!retcfi) {
kfree(cfi.cfiq);