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 = krealloc(instance, sizeof(struct foo) + count * sizeof(struct boo), 
GFP_KERNEL);

Instead of leaving these open-coded and prone to type mistakes, use the new
struct_size() helper:

instance = krealloc(instance, struct_size(instance, entry, count), GFP_KERNEL);

This code was detected with the help of Coccinelle.

Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <[email protected]>
---
 sound/soc/soc-dapm.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/sound/soc/soc-dapm.c b/sound/soc/soc-dapm.c
index b71ddaca70e5..511ed84b147b 100644
--- a/sound/soc/soc-dapm.c
+++ b/sound/soc/soc-dapm.c
@@ -487,7 +487,8 @@ static int dapm_kcontrol_add_widget(struct snd_kcontrol 
*kcontrol,
                n = 1;
 
        new_wlist = krealloc(data->wlist,
-                       sizeof(*new_wlist) + sizeof(widget) * n, GFP_KERNEL);
+                            struct_size(new_wlist, widgets, n),
+                            GFP_KERNEL);
        if (!new_wlist)
                return -ENOMEM;
 
-- 
2.21.0

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