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 = kmalloc(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 = kmalloc(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: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
if (bus->dev_count - bus->ioeventfd_count > NR_IOBUS_DEVS - 1)
return -ENOSPC;
- new_bus = kmalloc(sizeof(*bus) + ((bus->dev_count + 1) *
- sizeof(struct kvm_io_range)), GFP_KERNEL);
+ new_bus = kmalloc(struct_size(bus, range, bus->dev_count + 1),
+ GFP_KERNEL);
if (!new_bus)
return -ENOMEM;
if (i == bus->dev_count)
return;
- new_bus = kmalloc(sizeof(*bus) + ((bus->dev_count - 1) *
- sizeof(struct kvm_io_range)), GFP_KERNEL);
+ new_bus = kmalloc(struct_size(bus, range, bus->dev_count - 1),
+ GFP_KERNEL);
if (!new_bus) {
pr_err("kvm: failed to shrink bus, removing it completely\n");
goto broken;