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;
struct boo entry[];
};
instance = kmalloc(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 = 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>
Reviewed-by: Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@gmail.com>
/ sizeof(struct crush_rule_step))
goto bad;
#endif
- r = c->rules[i] = kmalloc(sizeof(*r) +
- yes*sizeof(struct crush_rule_step),
- GFP_NOFS);
+ r = kmalloc(struct_size(r, steps, yes), GFP_NOFS);
+ c->rules[i] = r;
if (r == NULL)
goto badmem;
dout(" rule %d is at %p\n", i, r);