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 = kvzalloc(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 = kvzalloc(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: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
smt_size = SMT_SIZE;
- s = kvzalloc(sizeof(*s) + smt_size * sizeof(struct smt_entry),
- GFP_KERNEL);
+ s = kvzalloc(struct_size(s, smtab, smt_size), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!s)
return NULL;
s->smt_size = smt_size;