diff options
author | Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org> | 2020-08-31 20:09:49 -0500 |
---|---|---|
committer | Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> | 2020-09-09 11:37:49 -0600 |
commit | 17dca0502314fa4855fae269dc86a1ce840a4d1a (patch) | |
tree | 49d4a558fbdd5aaf30a69910669b9eb817cbae93 /Documentation | |
parent | 9334e34fe1d5dec2bcfd41a4a1317d284ab1d61f (diff) | |
download | linux-stable-17dca0502314fa4855fae269dc86a1ce840a4d1a.tar.gz linux-stable-17dca0502314fa4855fae269dc86a1ce840a4d1a.tar.bz2 linux-stable-17dca0502314fa4855fae269dc86a1ce840a4d1a.zip |
docs: deprecated.rst: Update zero-length/one-element arrays section
Update information in the zero-length and one-element arrays section
and illustrate how to make use of the new flex_array_size() helper,
together with struct_size() and a flexible-array member.
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200901010949.GA21398@embeddedor
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/process/deprecated.rst | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/process/deprecated.rst b/Documentation/process/deprecated.rst index 70720f00b9aa..ff71d802b53d 100644 --- a/Documentation/process/deprecated.rst +++ b/Documentation/process/deprecated.rst @@ -304,7 +304,8 @@ to allocate for a structure containing an array of this kind as a member:: In the example above, we had to remember to calculate ``count - 1`` when using the struct_size() helper, otherwise we would have --unintentionally-- allocated memory for one too many ``items`` objects. The cleanest and least error-prone way -to implement this is through the use of a `flexible array member`:: +to implement this is through the use of a `flexible array member`, together with +struct_size() and flex_array_size() helpers:: struct something { size_t count; @@ -316,5 +317,4 @@ to implement this is through the use of a `flexible array member`:: instance = kmalloc(struct_size(instance, items, count), GFP_KERNEL); instance->count = count; - size = sizeof(instance->items[0]) * instance->count; - memcpy(instance->items, source, size); + memcpy(instance->items, source, flex_array_size(instance, items, instance->count)); |