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dmaengine: axi-dmac: Use struct_size() in kzalloc()
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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 = kzalloc(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 = kzalloc(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: Vinod Koul <vkoul@kernel.org>
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GustavoARSilva authored and vinodkoul committed Jan 20, 2019
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3 changes: 1 addition & 2 deletions drivers/dma/dma-axi-dmac.c
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Expand Up @@ -367,8 +367,7 @@ static struct axi_dmac_desc *axi_dmac_alloc_desc(unsigned int num_sgs)
struct axi_dmac_desc *desc;
unsigned int i;

desc = kzalloc(sizeof(struct axi_dmac_desc) +
sizeof(struct axi_dmac_sg) * num_sgs, GFP_NOWAIT);
desc = kzalloc(struct_size(desc, sg, num_sgs), GFP_NOWAIT);
if (!desc)
return NULL;

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