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 code was detected with the help of Coccinelle.

Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gust...@embeddedor.com>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/iwl-eeprom-parse.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/iwl-eeprom-parse.c 
b/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/iwl-eeprom-parse.c
index 75940ac406b9..04338c3a6205 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/iwl-eeprom-parse.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/iwl-eeprom-parse.c
@@ -850,8 +850,7 @@ iwl_parse_eeprom_data(struct device *dev, const struct 
iwl_cfg *cfg,
        if (WARN_ON(!cfg || !cfg->eeprom_params))
                return NULL;
 
-       data = kzalloc(sizeof(*data) +
-                      sizeof(struct ieee80211_channel) * IWL_NUM_CHANNELS,
+       data = kzalloc(struct_size(data, channels, IWL_NUM_CHANNELS),
                       GFP_KERNEL);
        if (!data)
                return NULL;
-- 
2.20.1

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