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[];
};
instance = kzalloc(sizeof(struct foo) + count * sizeof(struct boo), 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: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
(nhs = dn_fib_count_nhs(attrs[RTA_MULTIPATH])) == 0)
goto err_inval;
- fi = kzalloc(sizeof(*fi)+nhs*sizeof(struct dn_fib_nh), GFP_KERNEL);
+ fi = kzalloc(struct_size(fi, fib_nh, nhs), GFP_KERNEL);
err = -ENOBUFS;
if (fi == NULL)
goto failure;