[Linux-stm32] [PATCH] dmaengine: stm32-dma: Use struct_size() helper

[Vinod Koul]

On 30-08-19, 11:14, 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:
> 
> struct stm32_dma_desc {
> 	...
>         struct stm32_dma_sg_req sg_req[];
> };
> 
> 
> Make use of the struct_size() helper instead of an open-coded version
> in order to avoid any potential type mistakes.
> 
> So, replace the following function:
> 
> static struct stm32_dma_desc *stm32_dma_alloc_desc(u32 num_sgs)
> {
>        return kzalloc(sizeof(struct stm32_dma_desc) +
>                       sizeof(struct stm32_dma_sg_req) * num_sgs, GFP_NOWAIT);
> }
> 
> with:
> 
> kzalloc(struct_size(desc, sg_req, num_sgs), GFP_NOWAIT)
> 
> This code was detected with the help of Coccinelle.

Applied, thanks

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~Vinod