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

[Miquel Raynal]

On Sun, 2024-02-11 at 09:16:33 UTC, 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 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@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Erick Archer <erick.archer@xxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: AngeloGioacchino Del Regno <angelogioacchino.delregno@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@xxxxxxxxx>

Applied to https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mtd/linux.git nand/next, thanks.

Miquel