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/l2t.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/l2t.c 
b/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/l2t.c
index 4852febbfec3..1a407d3c1d67 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/l2t.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/l2t.c
@@ -646,7 +646,7 @@ struct l2t_data *t4_init_l2t(unsigned int l2t_start, 
unsigned int l2t_end)
        if (l2t_size < L2T_MIN_HASH_BUCKETS)
                return NULL;
 
-       d = kvzalloc(sizeof(*d) + l2t_size * sizeof(struct l2t_entry), 
GFP_KERNEL);
+       d = kvzalloc(struct_size(d, l2tab, l2t_size), GFP_KERNEL);
        if (!d)
                return NULL;
 
-- 
2.20.1

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