On Sat, Feb 10, 2024 at 05:16:19PM +0100, Erick Archer wrote:
> 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 more safer.Unless you intend this non-English comparative: s/more safer/safer/ Best regards Uwe -- Pengutronix e.K. | Uwe Kleine-König | Industrial Linux Solutions | https://www.pengutronix.de/ |
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