linux-kernel - RE: [PATCH] regulator: da9063: Use struct_size() in devm

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Date:   Mon, 25 Feb 2019 13:12:58 +0000
From:   Steve Twiss <stwiss.opensource@...semi.com>
To:     "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@...eddedor.com>,
        Support Opensource <Support.Opensource@...semi.com>,
        Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@...il.com>,
        Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
CC:     "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH] regulator: da9063: Use struct_size() in devm_kzalloc()

Hi Gustavo,

On 21 February 2019 17:57, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote: 

> Subject: [PATCH] regulator: da9063: Use struct_size() in devm_kzalloc()
> 
> 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 = alloc(size, GFP_KERNEL)
> 
> Instead of leaving these open-coded and prone to type mistakes, we can
> now use the new struct_size() helper:

Acked-by: Steve Twiss <stwiss.opensource@...semi.com>

Thanks,

Regards,
Steve