[PATCH v2] mtd: rawnand: Prefer struct_size over open coded arithmetic

AngeloGioacchino Del Regno angelogioacchino.delregno at collabora.com
Mon Feb 12 00:46:43 PST 2024


Il 11/02/24 10:16, Erick Archer ha scritto:
> This is an effort to get rid of all multiplications from allocation
> functions in order to prevent integer overflows [1].
> 
> As the "chip" variable is a pointer to "struct mtk_nfc_nand_chip" and
> this structure ends in a flexible array:
> 
> struct mtk_nfc_nand_chip {
> 	[...]
> 	u8 sels[] __counted_by(nsels);
> };
> 
> the preferred way in the kernel is to use the struct_size() helper to
> do the arithmetic instead of the argument "size + count * size" in the
> devm_kzalloc() function.
> 
> This way, the code is more readable and safer.
> 
> Link: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#open-coded-arithmetic-in-allocator-arguments [1]
> Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/160 [2]
> Reviewed-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars at kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Erick Archer <erick.archer at gmx.com>

Just noticed that there was a v2 already addressing the commit description issue.

Reviewed-by: AngeloGioacchino Del Regno <angelogioacchino.delregno at collabora.com>





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