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: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com>
s = rdma_start_port(device);
e = rdma_end_port(device);
- sa_dev = kzalloc(sizeof *sa_dev +
- (e - s + 1) * sizeof (struct ib_sa_port),
- GFP_KERNEL);
+ sa_dev = kzalloc(struct_size(sa_dev, port, e - s + 1), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!sa_dev)
return;