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_ATOMIC);

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_ATOMIC);

This issue was detected with the help of Coccinelle.

Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gust...@embeddedor.com>
---
 drivers/soc/qcom/rpmh.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/soc/qcom/rpmh.c b/drivers/soc/qcom/rpmh.c
index c7beb68..12c057a 100644
--- a/drivers/soc/qcom/rpmh.c
+++ b/drivers/soc/qcom/rpmh.c
@@ -362,8 +362,7 @@ int rpmh_write_batch(const struct device *dev, enum 
rpmh_state state,
        if (!count)
                return -EINVAL;
 
-       req = kzalloc(sizeof(*req) + count * sizeof(req->rpm_msgs[0]),
-                     GFP_ATOMIC);
+       req = kzalloc(struct_size(req, rpm_msgs, count), GFP_ATOMIC);
        if (!req)
                return -ENOMEM;
        req->count = count;
-- 
2.7.4

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