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 = devm_kzalloc(dev, 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 = devm_kzalloc(dev, 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>
return PTR_ERR(regmap);
/* Alloc port structure */
- s = devm_kzalloc(dev, sizeof(*s) +
- sizeof(struct max310x_one) * devtype->nr, GFP_KERNEL);
+ s = devm_kzalloc(dev, struct_size(s, p, devtype->nr), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!s) {
dev_err(dev, "Error allocating port structure\n");
return -ENOMEM;