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 = alloc(size, GFP_KERNEL)
Instead of leaving these open-coded and prone to type mistakes, we can
now use the new struct_size() helper:
size = struct_size(instance, entry, count);
instance = alloc(size, 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>
struct tcf_t t;
int s;
- s = sizeof(*opt) + p->tcfp_nkeys * sizeof(struct tc_pedit_key);
+ s = struct_size(opt, keys, p->tcfp_nkeys);
/* netlink spinlocks held above us - must use ATOMIC */
opt = kzalloc(s, GFP_ATOMIC);