On 23/08/2018 20:07:06-0500, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
> 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 = devm_kzalloc(dev, 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 = devm_kzalloc(dev, struct_size(instance, entry, count), GFP_KERNEL);
>
> This issue was detected with the help of Coccinelle.
>
> Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gust...@embeddedor.com>
> ---
> drivers/memory/atmel-ebi.c | 3 +--
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
Applied, thanks.
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