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 = devm_kzalloc(dev, 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 = devm_kzalloc(dev, struct_size(instance, entry, count), GFP_KERNEL);
This issue was detected with the help of Coccinelle.
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <[email protected]>
---
drivers/dma/dma-jz4780.c | 5 ++---
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/dma/dma-jz4780.c b/drivers/dma/dma-jz4780.c
index a8b6225faa12..9ce0a386225b 100644
--- a/drivers/dma/dma-jz4780.c
+++ b/drivers/dma/dma-jz4780.c
@@ -838,9 +838,8 @@ static int jz4780_dma_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
if (!soc_data)
return -EINVAL;
- jzdma = devm_kzalloc(dev, sizeof(*jzdma)
- + sizeof(*jzdma->chan) * soc_data->nb_channels,
- GFP_KERNEL);
+ jzdma = devm_kzalloc(dev, struct_size(jzdma, chan,
+ soc_data->nb_channels), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!jzdma)
return -ENOMEM;
--
2.20.1
