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authorRosen Penev <rosenp@gmail.com>2026-03-05 14:44:10 -0800
committerMiquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>2026-03-11 16:23:57 +0100
commite19eaffc5213fdd6179e849d3032929fae0d8c2c (patch)
tree2ef7eb7081bbe661bf7528ee357166192ec0e75f /drivers/mtd
parentc685e6e8d88d544e8c4429b06c3e6795cbba32dd (diff)
mtd: concat: replace alloc + calloc with 1 alloc
A flex array can be used to reduce the allocation to 1. And actually mtdconcat was using the pointer + 1 trick to point to the overallocated area. Better alternatives exist. Signed-off-by: Rosen Penev <rosenp@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/mtd')
-rw-r--r--drivers/mtd/mtd_virt_concat.c8
-rw-r--r--drivers/mtd/mtdconcat.c5
2 files changed, 2 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/mtd/mtd_virt_concat.c b/drivers/mtd/mtd_virt_concat.c
index 72689545e48e..37075ead0f33 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/mtd_virt_concat.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/mtd_virt_concat.c
@@ -182,18 +182,12 @@ static int mtd_virt_concat_create_item(struct device_node *parts,
for (i = 1; i < count; i++)
item->nodes[i] = of_parse_phandle(parts, CONCAT_PROP, (i - 1));
- concat = kzalloc(sizeof(*concat), GFP_KERNEL);
+ concat = kzalloc_flex(*concat, subdev, count, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!concat) {
kfree(item);
return -ENOMEM;
}
- concat->subdev = kcalloc(count, sizeof(*concat->subdev), GFP_KERNEL);
- if (!concat->subdev) {
- kfree(item);
- kfree(concat);
- return -ENOMEM;
- }
item->concat = concat;
list_add_tail(&item->head, &concat_node_list);
diff --git a/drivers/mtd/mtdconcat.c b/drivers/mtd/mtdconcat.c
index 241d15235d01..c97167d51fe2 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/mtdconcat.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/mtdconcat.c
@@ -627,7 +627,6 @@ struct mtd_info *mtd_concat_create(struct mtd_info *subdev[], /* subdevices to c
const char *name)
{ /* name for the new device */
int i;
- size_t size;
struct mtd_concat *concat;
struct mtd_info *subdev_master = NULL;
uint32_t max_erasesize, curr_erasesize;
@@ -640,15 +639,13 @@ struct mtd_info *mtd_concat_create(struct mtd_info *subdev[], /* subdevices to c
printk(KERN_NOTICE "into device \"%s\"\n", name);
/* allocate the device structure */
- size = SIZEOF_STRUCT_MTD_CONCAT(num_devs);
- concat = kzalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
+ concat = kzalloc_flex(*concat, subdev, num_devs, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!concat) {
printk
("memory allocation error while creating concatenated device \"%s\"\n",
name);
return NULL;
}
- concat->subdev = (struct mtd_info **) (concat + 1);
/*
* Set up the new "super" device's MTD object structure, check for