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authorJeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>2014-02-07 11:04:04 -0500
committerSteve French <smfrench@gmail.com>2014-02-07 20:38:29 -0600
commit26c8f0d601f5d4c0d9f4bc8c5151539aae5dc26a (patch)
tree54636097b13ebeee398f6b4fe4d98835065ba3b0 /fs/cifs
parent83e3bc23ef9ce7c03b7b4e5d3d790246ea59db3e (diff)
cifs: use a flexarray in cifs_writedata
The cifs_writedata code uses a single element trailing array, which just adds unneeded complexity. Use a flexarray instead. Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Pavel Shilovsky <piastry@etersoft.ru> Signed-off-by: Steve French <smfrench@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/cifs')
-rw-r--r--fs/cifs/cifsglob.h2
-rw-r--r--fs/cifs/cifssmb.c8
2 files changed, 2 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/fs/cifs/cifsglob.h b/fs/cifs/cifsglob.h
index 615e35ab7ef6..d6a031ed391b 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/cifsglob.h
+++ b/fs/cifs/cifsglob.h
@@ -1068,7 +1068,7 @@ struct cifs_writedata {
unsigned int pagesz;
unsigned int tailsz;
unsigned int nr_pages;
- struct page *pages[1];
+ struct page *pages[];
};
/*
diff --git a/fs/cifs/cifssmb.c b/fs/cifs/cifssmb.c
index 4d881c35eeca..0cd742ccb019 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/cifssmb.c
+++ b/fs/cifs/cifssmb.c
@@ -1962,15 +1962,9 @@ cifs_writedata_alloc(unsigned int nr_pages, work_func_t complete)
{
struct cifs_writedata *wdata;
- /* this would overflow */
- if (nr_pages == 0) {
- cifs_dbg(VFS, "%s: called with nr_pages == 0!\n", __func__);
- return NULL;
- }
-
/* writedata + number of page pointers */
wdata = kzalloc(sizeof(*wdata) +
- sizeof(struct page *) * (nr_pages - 1), GFP_NOFS);
+ sizeof(struct page *) * nr_pages, GFP_NOFS);
if (wdata != NULL) {
kref_init(&wdata->refcount);
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&wdata->list);