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 = devm_kzalloc(dev, 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 = devm_kzalloc(dev, 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/hisilicon/hns/hns_dsaf_rcb.c | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hns/hns_dsaf_rcb.c 
b/drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hns/hns_dsaf_rcb.c
index 5d64519b9b1d..6bf346c11b25 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hns/hns_dsaf_rcb.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hns/hns_dsaf_rcb.c
@@ -788,8 +788,9 @@ int hns_rcb_common_get_cfg(struct dsaf_device *dsaf_dev,
        int ring_num = hns_rcb_get_ring_num(dsaf_dev);
 
        rcb_common =
-               devm_kzalloc(dsaf_dev->dev, sizeof(*rcb_common) +
-                       ring_num * sizeof(struct ring_pair_cb), GFP_KERNEL);
+               devm_kzalloc(dsaf_dev->dev,
+                            struct_size(rcb_common, ring_pair_cb, ring_num),
+                            GFP_KERNEL);
        if (!rcb_common) {
                dev_err(dsaf_dev->dev, "rcb common devm_kzalloc fail!\n");
                return -ENOMEM;
-- 
2.20.1

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