Many boards have only 2 ports. But we always allocate 8 ports (struct mxser_port) in each struct mxser_board. Switch this to an empty/variable sized array ([]) and allocate the needed number of ports using struct_size helper in ->probe. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx> --- drivers/tty/mxser.c | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/tty/mxser.c b/drivers/tty/mxser.c index 0e99225e260f..81e2b72fca3f 100644 --- a/drivers/tty/mxser.c +++ b/drivers/tty/mxser.c @@ -275,7 +275,7 @@ struct mxser_board { enum mxser_must_hwid must_hwid; speed_t max_baud; - struct mxser_port ports[MXSER_PORTS_PER_BOARD]; + struct mxser_port ports[]; }; static DECLARE_BITMAP(mxser_boards, MXSER_BOARDS); @@ -1923,7 +1923,8 @@ static int mxser_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev, goto err; } - brd = devm_kzalloc(&pdev->dev, sizeof(*brd), GFP_KERNEL); + brd = devm_kzalloc(&pdev->dev, struct_size(brd, ports, nports), + GFP_KERNEL); if (!brd) goto err; -- 2.32.0