linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] dmaengine: st_fdma: use struct

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Message-ID: <e9895775-f1d6-cc64-6df9-f6b75cc2bb5c@embeddedor.com>
Date:   Wed, 9 Jan 2019 11:43:07 -0600
From:   "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@...eddedor.com>
To:     Patrice CHOTARD <patrice.chotard@...com>,
        Vinod Koul <vkoul@...nel.org>,
        Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
Cc:     "linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
        <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
        "dmaengine@...r.kernel.org" <dmaengine@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] dmaengine: st_fdma: use struct_size() in kzalloc()



On 1/7/19 2:50 AM, Patrice CHOTARD wrote:
> Hi Gustavo
> 
> On 1/4/19 7:43 PM, 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:
>>

[..]

>>
>> Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@...eddedor.com>
>> ---
>>   drivers/dma/st_fdma.c | 3 +--
>>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/dma/st_fdma.c b/drivers/dma/st_fdma.c
>> index 07c20aa2e955..df6b73028ecb 100644
>> --- a/drivers/dma/st_fdma.c
>> +++ b/drivers/dma/st_fdma.c
>> @@ -243,8 +243,7 @@ static struct st_fdma_desc *st_fdma_alloc_desc(struct st_fdma_chan *fchan,
>>   	struct st_fdma_desc *fdesc;
>>   	int i;
>>   
>> -	fdesc = kzalloc(sizeof(*fdesc) +
>> -			sizeof(struct st_fdma_sw_node) * sg_len, GFP_NOWAIT);
>> +	fdesc = kzalloc(struct_size(fdesc, node, sg_len), GFP_NOWAIT);
>>   	if (!fdesc)
>>   		return NULL;
>>   
>>
> 
> 
> Acked-by: Patrice Chotard <patrice.chotard@...com>
> 

Thanks, Patrice.

--
Gustavo