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 = kmalloc(sizeof(struct foo) + sizeof(void *) * count, GFP_KERNEL);
Instead of leaving these open-coded and prone to type mistakes, we can
now use the new struct_size() helper:
instance = kmalloc(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: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
{
struct urb *urb;
- urb = kmalloc(sizeof(struct urb) +
- iso_packets * sizeof(struct usb_iso_packet_descriptor),
- mem_flags);
+ urb = kmalloc(struct_size(urb, iso_frame_desc, iso_packets),
+ mem_flags);
if (!urb)
return NULL;
usb_init_urb(urb);