convert trivial cases to FLEX_ARRAY macros

Using FLEX_ARRAY macros reduces the amount of manual
computation size we have to do. It also ensures we don't
overflow size_t, and it makes sure we write the same number
of bytes that we allocated.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/attr.c b/attr.c
index c83ec49f1..6537a433d 100644
--- a/attr.c
+++ b/attr.c
@@ -93,9 +93,7 @@ static struct git_attr *git_attr_internal(const char *name, int len)
 	if (invalid_attr_name(name, len))
 		return NULL;
 
-	a = xmalloc(sizeof(*a) + len + 1);
-	memcpy(a->name, name, len);
-	a->name[len] = 0;
+	FLEX_ALLOC_MEM(a, name, name, len);
 	a->h = hval;
 	a->next = git_attr_hash[pos];
 	a->attr_nr = attr_nr++;