From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gust...@embeddedor.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2019 18:23:14 -0600
> 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>
Applied.
