linux-kernel - [PATCH] mailbox: zynq: Switch to flexible array to simplify code

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Date:   Sun, 20 Nov 2022 09:25:54 +0100
From:   Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@...adoo.fr>
To:     Jassi Brar <jassisinghbrar@...il.com>,
        Michal Simek <michal.simek@...inx.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
        Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@...adoo.fr>,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH] mailbox: zynq: Switch to flexible array to simplify code

Using flexible array is more straight forward. It
  - saves 1 pointer in the 'zynqmp_ipi_pdata' structure
  - saves an indirection when using this array
  - saves some LoC and avoids some always spurious pointer arithmetic

Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@...adoo.fr>
---
Compile tested only
---
 drivers/mailbox/zynqmp-ipi-mailbox.c | 6 ++----
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/mailbox/zynqmp-ipi-mailbox.c b/drivers/mailbox/zynqmp-ipi-mailbox.c
index 31a0fa914274..68e5726f5157 100644
--- a/drivers/mailbox/zynqmp-ipi-mailbox.c
+++ b/drivers/mailbox/zynqmp-ipi-mailbox.c
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ struct zynqmp_ipi_pdata {
 	unsigned int method;
 	u32 local_id;
 	int num_mboxes;
-	struct zynqmp_ipi_mbox *ipi_mboxes;
+	struct zynqmp_ipi_mbox ipi_mboxes[];
 };
 
 static struct device_driver zynqmp_ipi_mbox_driver = {
@@ -633,7 +633,7 @@ static int zynqmp_ipi_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 	int num_mboxes, ret = -EINVAL;
 
 	num_mboxes = of_get_child_count(np);
-	pdata = devm_kzalloc(dev, sizeof(*pdata) + (num_mboxes * sizeof(*mbox)),
+	pdata = devm_kzalloc(dev, struct_size(pdata, ipi_mboxes, num_mboxes),
 			     GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!pdata)
 		return -ENOMEM;
@@ -647,8 +647,6 @@ static int zynqmp_ipi_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 	}
 
 	pdata->num_mboxes = num_mboxes;
-	pdata->ipi_mboxes = (struct zynqmp_ipi_mbox *)
-			    ((char *)pdata + sizeof(*pdata));
 
 	mbox = pdata->ipi_mboxes;
 	for_each_available_child_of_node(np, nc) {
-- 
2.34.1