[PATCHv2,3/4] gpio: Remove VLA from xra1403 driver

Commit Message

Laura Abbott March 15, 2018, 6 p.m. UTC

The new challenge is to remove VLAs from the kernel
(see https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/3/7/621)

This patch replaces a VLA with an appropriate call to kmalloc_array.

Reviewed-by: Nandor Han <[e-mail]>
Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott <[e-mail]>
---
v3: Add reviwed-by
---
 drivers/gpio/gpio-xra1403.c | 8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Patch

diff --git a/drivers/gpio/gpio-xra1403.c b/drivers/gpio/gpio-xra1403.c
index 0230e4b7a2fb..8d4c8e99b251 100644
--- a/drivers/gpio/gpio-xra1403.c
+++ b/drivers/gpio/gpio-xra1403.c
@@ -126,11 +126,16 @@  static void xra1403_dbg_show(struct seq_file *s, struct gpio_chip *chip)
 {
 	int reg;
 	struct xra1403 *xra = gpiochip_get_data(chip);
-	int value[xra1403_regmap_cfg.max_register];
+	int *value;
 	int i;
 	unsigned int gcr;
 	unsigned int gsr;
 
+	value = kmalloc_array(xra1403_regmap_cfg.max_register, sizeof(*value),
+				GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!value)
+		return;
+
 	seq_puts(s, "xra reg:");
 	for (reg = 0; reg <= xra1403_regmap_cfg.max_register; reg++)
 		seq_printf(s, " %2.2x", reg);
@@ -154,6 +159,7 @@  static void xra1403_dbg_show(struct seq_file *s, struct gpio_chip *chip)
 			   (gcr & BIT(i)) ? "in" : "out",
 			   (gsr & BIT(i)) ? "hi" : "lo");
 	}
+	kfree(value);
 }
 #else
 #define xra1403_dbg_show NULL