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