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 = kvzalloc(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 = kvzalloc(struct_size(instance, entry, count), GFP_KERNEL); This code was detected with the help of Coccinelle. Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gust...@embeddedor.com> --- drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/sched.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/sched.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/sched.c index 52edb688942b..ba6c153ee45c 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/sched.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/sched.c @@ -478,7 +478,7 @@ struct sched_table *t4_init_sched(unsigned int sched_size) struct sched_table *s; unsigned int i; - s = kvzalloc(sizeof(*s) + sched_size * sizeof(struct sched_class), GFP_KERNEL); + s = kvzalloc(struct_size(s, tab, sched_size), GFP_KERNEL); if (!s) return NULL; -- 2.20.1