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-rw-r--r--Documentation/process/deprecated.rst6
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/process/deprecated.rst b/Documentation/process/deprecated.rst
index 70720f00b9aa..ff71d802b53d 100644
--- a/Documentation/process/deprecated.rst
+++ b/Documentation/process/deprecated.rst
@@ -304,7 +304,8 @@ to allocate for a structure containing an array of this kind as a member::
In the example above, we had to remember to calculate ``count - 1`` when using
the struct_size() helper, otherwise we would have --unintentionally-- allocated
memory for one too many ``items`` objects. The cleanest and least error-prone way
-to implement this is through the use of a `flexible array member`::
+to implement this is through the use of a `flexible array member`, together with
+struct_size() and flex_array_size() helpers::
struct something {
size_t count;
@@ -316,5 +317,4 @@ to implement this is through the use of a `flexible array member`::
instance = kmalloc(struct_size(instance, items, count), GFP_KERNEL);
instance->count = count;
- size = sizeof(instance->items[0]) * instance->count;
- memcpy(instance->items, source, size);
+ memcpy(instance->items, source, flex_array_size(instance, items, instance->count));