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[];
};
size = sizeof(struct foo) + count * sizeof(struct boo);
instance = kvzalloc(size, 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);
Notice that, in this case, variable size is not necessary, hence
it is removed.
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>
struct l2t_data *t3_init_l2t(unsigned int l2t_capacity)
{
struct l2t_data *d;
- int i, size = sizeof(*d) + l2t_capacity * sizeof(struct l2t_entry);
+ int i;
- d = kvzalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
+ d = kvzalloc(struct_size(d, l2tab, l2t_capacity), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!d)
return NULL;