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>
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@ -304,7 +304,8 @@ to allocate for a structure containing an array of this kind as a member::
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In the example above, we had to remember to calculate ``count - 1`` when using
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the struct_size() helper, otherwise we would have --unintentionally-- allocated
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memory for one too many ``items`` objects. The cleanest and least error-prone way
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to implement this is through the use of a `flexible array member`::
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to implement this is through the use of a `flexible array member`, together with
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struct_size() and flex_array_size() helpers::
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struct something {
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size_t count;
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instance = kmalloc(struct_size(instance, items, count), GFP_KERNEL);
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instance->count = count;
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size = sizeof(instance->items[0]) * instance->count;
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memcpy(instance->items, source, size);
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memcpy(instance->items, source, flex_array_size(instance, items, instance->count));
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