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: Vinod Koul <vkoul@kernel.org>
return -ENODEV;
}
- tdma = devm_kzalloc(&pdev->dev, sizeof(*tdma) + cdata->nr_channels *
- sizeof(struct tegra_adma_chan), GFP_KERNEL);
+ tdma = devm_kzalloc(&pdev->dev,
+ struct_size(tdma, channels, cdata->nr_channels),
+ GFP_KERNEL);
if (!tdma)
return -ENOMEM;