At the time of the writing, the value of 'num_radar_types' is 7 or 9. So on a 64 bits system, only 56 or 72 bytes are allocated for the 'detectors' array. Turn it into a flex array, in order to simplify memory management and save an indirection when the array is used. Doing so, cd->detectors can't be NULL, and channel_detector_exit() can be simplified as well. Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx> --- Patch #1/2 is a fix, for for wireless. Patch #2/2 is for wireless-next I guess, but depnds on #1 Not sure if we can mix different target in the same serie. Let me know. --- .../net/wireless/ath/dfs_pattern_detector.c | 21 +++++++------------ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/dfs_pattern_detector.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/dfs_pattern_detector.c index 2788a1b06c17..700da9f4531e 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/dfs_pattern_detector.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/dfs_pattern_detector.c @@ -161,7 +161,7 @@ get_dfs_domain_radar_types(enum nl80211_dfs_regions region) struct channel_detector { struct list_head head; u16 freq; - struct pri_detector **detectors; + struct pri_detector *detectors[]; }; /* channel_detector_reset() - reset detector lines for a given channel */ @@ -183,14 +183,13 @@ static void channel_detector_exit(struct dfs_pattern_detector *dpd, if (cd == NULL) return; list_del(&cd->head); - if (cd->detectors) { - for (i = 0; i < dpd->num_radar_types; i++) { - struct pri_detector *de = cd->detectors[i]; - if (de != NULL) - de->exit(de); - } + + for (i = 0; i < dpd->num_radar_types; i++) { + struct pri_detector *de = cd->detectors[i]; + if (de != NULL) + de->exit(de); } - kfree(cd->detectors); + kfree(cd); } @@ -200,16 +199,12 @@ channel_detector_create(struct dfs_pattern_detector *dpd, u16 freq) u32 i; struct channel_detector *cd; - cd = kmalloc(sizeof(*cd), GFP_ATOMIC); + cd = kzalloc(struct_size(cd, detectors, dpd->num_radar_types), GFP_ATOMIC); if (cd == NULL) goto fail; INIT_LIST_HEAD(&cd->head); cd->freq = freq; - cd->detectors = kcalloc(dpd->num_radar_types, - sizeof(*cd->detectors), GFP_ATOMIC); - if (cd->detectors == NULL) - goto fail; for (i = 0; i < dpd->num_radar_types; i++) { const struct radar_detector_specs *rs = &dpd->radar_spec[i]; -- 2.34.1