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 issue was detected with the help of Coccinelle. Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel <ido...@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gust...@embeddedor.com> --- .../net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum_acl_bloom_filter.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum_acl_bloom_filter.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum_acl_bloom_filter.c index 505b87846acc..f5c381dcb015 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum_acl_bloom_filter.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum_acl_bloom_filter.c @@ -234,8 +234,8 @@ mlxsw_sp_acl_bf_init(struct mlxsw_sp *mlxsw_sp, unsigned int num_erp_banks) * is 2^ACL_MAX_BF_LOG */ bf_bank_size = 1 << MLXSW_CORE_RES_GET(mlxsw_sp->core, ACL_MAX_BF_LOG); - bf = kzalloc(sizeof(*bf) + bf_bank_size * num_erp_banks * - sizeof(*bf->refcnt), GFP_KERNEL); + bf = kzalloc(struct_size(bf, refcnt, bf_bank_size * num_erp_banks), + GFP_KERNEL); if (!bf) return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM); -- 2.17.0