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 = kzalloc(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 = kzalloc(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: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
repo->dev_index, repo->dev_type, port, blk_size, num_blocks,
num_regions);
- p = kzalloc(sizeof(struct ps3_storage_device) +
- num_regions * sizeof(struct ps3_storage_region),
- GFP_KERNEL);
+ p = kzalloc(struct_size(p, regions, num_regions), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!p) {
result = -ENOMEM;
goto fail_malloc;