[PATCHv2 2/2] phy: miphy28lp: kzalloc + kcalloc to single kzalloc

Rosen Penev rosenp at gmail.com
Fri Mar 6 14:24:57 PST 2026


Use flex array to simplify allocation.

Allows using __counted_by for extra runtime analysis.

Signed-off-by: Rosen Penev <rosenp at gmail.com>
---
 drivers/phy/st/phy-miphy28lp.c | 12 +++++-------
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/phy/st/phy-miphy28lp.c b/drivers/phy/st/phy-miphy28lp.c
index 43cef89af55e..c576fc5569fe 100644
--- a/drivers/phy/st/phy-miphy28lp.c
+++ b/drivers/phy/st/phy-miphy28lp.c
@@ -224,8 +224,8 @@ struct miphy28lp_dev {
 	struct device *dev;
 	struct regmap *regmap;
 	struct mutex miphy_mutex;
-	struct miphy28lp_phy **phys;
 	int nphys;
+	struct miphy28lp_phy *phys[] __counted_by(nphys);
 };

 enum miphy_sata_gen { SATA_GEN1, SATA_GEN2, SATA_GEN3 };
@@ -1168,16 +1168,14 @@ static int miphy28lp_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 	struct phy_provider *provider;
 	struct phy *phy;
 	int ret, port = 0;
+	size_t nphys;

-	miphy_dev = devm_kzalloc(&pdev->dev, sizeof(*miphy_dev), GFP_KERNEL);
+	nphys = of_get_child_count(np);
+	miphy_dev = devm_kzalloc(&pdev->dev, struct_size(miphy_dev, phys, nphys), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!miphy_dev)
 		return -ENOMEM;

-	miphy_dev->nphys = of_get_child_count(np);
-	miphy_dev->phys = devm_kcalloc(&pdev->dev, miphy_dev->nphys,
-				       sizeof(*miphy_dev->phys), GFP_KERNEL);
-	if (!miphy_dev->phys)
-		return -ENOMEM;
+	miphy_dev->nphys = nphys;

 	miphy_dev->regmap = syscon_regmap_lookup_by_phandle(np, "st,syscfg");
 	if (IS_ERR(miphy_dev->regmap)) {
--
2.53.0




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