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 = devm_kzalloc(dev, size, 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: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190410170914.GA16161@embeddedor
irq_flow_handler_t handler)
{
struct irq_chip_generic *gc;
- unsigned long sz = sizeof(*gc) + num_ct * sizeof(struct irq_chip_type);
- gc = devm_kzalloc(dev, sz, GFP_KERNEL);
+ gc = devm_kzalloc(dev, struct_size(gc, chip_types, num_ct), GFP_KERNEL);
if (gc)
irq_init_generic_chip(gc, name, num_ct,
irq_base, reg_base, handler);