From: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@kernel.org>
To: Rosen Penev <rosenp@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-clk@vger.kernel.org, Prashant Gaikwad <pgaikwad@nvidia.com>,
Stephen Boyd <sboyd@kernel.org>,
Brian Masney <bmasney+clk@redhat.com>,
Jerome Brunet <jbrunet+clk@baylibre.com>,
Jonathan Hunter <jonathanh@nvidia.com>,
Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>,
"Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@kernel.org>,
"open list:TEGRA ARCHITECTURE SUPPORT"
<linux-tegra@vger.kernel.org>,
open list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"open list:KERNEL HARDENING (not covered by other
areas):Keyword:b__counted_by(_le|_be|_ptr)?b"
<linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND] clk: tegra: bmp: remove kcalloc
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2026 11:33:09 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <arzWdLVv5K9lJLz1@orome> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260929192437.27775-1-rosenp@gmail.com>
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On Tue, Sep 29, 2026 at 12:24:37PM -0700, Rosen Penev wrote:
> Use a flexible array member to avoid allocating separately.
>
> Use __counted_by for extra runtime analysis.
>
> Signed-off-by: Rosen Penev <rosenp@gmail.com>
> ---
> drivers/clk/tegra/clk-bpmp.c | 12 +++---------
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/clk/tegra/clk-bpmp.c b/drivers/clk/tegra/clk-bpmp.c
> index 067a8555c4e7..15b976162b59 100644
> --- a/drivers/clk/tegra/clk-bpmp.c
> +++ b/drivers/clk/tegra/clk-bpmp.c
> @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ struct tegra_bpmp_clk {
> unsigned int id;
>
> unsigned int num_parents;
> - unsigned int *parents;
> + unsigned int parents[] __counted_by(num_parents);
> };
>
> static inline struct tegra_bpmp_clk *to_tegra_bpmp_clk(struct clk_hw *hw)
> @@ -518,20 +518,14 @@ tegra_bpmp_clk_register(struct tegra_bpmp *bpmp,
> unsigned int i;
> int err;
>
> - clk = devm_kzalloc(bpmp->dev, sizeof(*clk), GFP_KERNEL);
> + clk = devm_kzalloc(bpmp->dev, struct_size(clk, parents, info->num_parents), GFP_KERNEL);
k{m,z}alloc_flex() exists for this, but there's no devm variant of
those, so I guess someone should add one. In the meantime, this is as
good as it's going to get for now:
Reviewed-by: Thierry Reding <treding@nvidia.com>
Acked-by: Thierry Reding <treding@nvidia.com>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-09-30 9:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-29 19:24 Rosen Penev
2026-09-30 7:58 ` Jerome Brunet
2026-09-30 9:29 ` Thierry Reding
2026-09-30 9:33 ` Thierry Reding [this message]
2026-09-30 11:06 ` Jon Hunter
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