One of the more common cases of allocation size calculations is finding
the size of a structure that has a zero-sized array at the end, along
with memory for some number of elements for that array. For example:
struct foo {
int stuff;
void *entry[];
};
instance = kzalloc(sizeof(struct foo) + count * sizeof(struct boo), GFP_KERNEL);
Instead of leaving these open-coded and prone to type mistakes, we can
now use the new struct_size() helper:
instance = kzalloc(struct_size(instance, entry, count), GFP_KERNEL);
This code was detected with the help of Coccinelle.
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net>
Reviewed-by: Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20190131010015.GA32272@embeddedor
return -EINVAL;
}
- perfmon = kzalloc(sizeof(*perfmon) + (req->ncounters * sizeof(u64)),
+ perfmon = kzalloc(struct_size(perfmon, counters, req->ncounters),
GFP_KERNEL);
if (!perfmon)
return -ENOMEM;