flex_array: flex_array_prealloc takes a number of elements, not an end
authorEric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Thu, 28 Apr 2011 19:55:52 +0000 (15:55 -0400)
committerEric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Thu, 28 Apr 2011 19:56:06 +0000 (15:56 -0400)
commit5a3ea8782c63d3501cb764c176f153c0d9a400e1
tree3ff57105c8c3f3ad696b29511d1cf69f434caeab
parent562abf624175e3f8487b7f064e516805e437e597
flex_array: flex_array_prealloc takes a number of elements, not an end

Change flex_array_prealloc to take the number of elements for which space
should be allocated instead of the last (inclusive) element. Users
and documentation are updated accordingly.  flex_arrays got introduced before
they had users.  When folks started using it, they ended up needing a
different API than was coded up originally.  This swaps over to the API that
folks apparently need.

Based-on-patch-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Chris Richards <gizmo@giz-works.com>
Acked-by: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org [2.6.38+]
Documentation/flexible-arrays.txt
include/linux/flex_array.h
lib/flex_array.c
security/selinux/ss/policydb.c