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video: fbdev/mmp/core: Use struct_size() in kzalloc()

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 mmp_path {
...
struct mmp_overlay overlays[0];
};

size = sizeof(struct mmp_path) + count * sizeof(struct mmp_overlay);
instance = kzalloc(size, 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, overlays, count), GFP_KERNEL)

Notice that, in this case, variable size is not necessary, hence it
is removed.

This code was detected with the help of Coccinelle.

Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20190807161312.GA26835@embeddedor

authored by

Gustavo A. R. Silva and committed by
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
06b1f4b9 2012f776

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drivers/video/fbdev/mmp/core.c
··· 153 153 struct mmp_path *mmp_register_path(struct mmp_path_info *info) 154 154 { 155 155 int i; 156 - size_t size; 157 156 struct mmp_path *path = NULL; 158 157 struct mmp_panel *panel; 159 158 160 - size = sizeof(struct mmp_path) 161 - + sizeof(struct mmp_overlay) * info->overlay_num; 162 - path = kzalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL); 159 + path = kzalloc(struct_size(path, overlays, info->overlay_num), 160 + GFP_KERNEL); 163 161 if (!path) 164 162 return NULL; 165 163