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 code was detected with the help of Coccinelle. Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gust...@embeddedor.com> --- drivers/staging/mt7621-dma/ralink-gdma.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/mt7621-dma/ralink-gdma.c b/drivers/staging/mt7621-dma/ralink-gdma.c index 792a63bd55d4..d78042eba6dd 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/mt7621-dma/ralink-gdma.c +++ b/drivers/staging/mt7621-dma/ralink-gdma.c @@ -821,9 +821,9 @@ static int gdma_dma_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) return -EINVAL; data = (struct gdma_data *) match->data; - dma_dev = devm_kzalloc(&pdev->dev, sizeof(*dma_dev) + - (sizeof(struct gdma_dmaengine_chan) * data->chancnt), - GFP_KERNEL); + dma_dev = devm_kzalloc(&pdev->dev, + struct_size(dma_dev, chan, data->chancnt), + GFP_KERNEL); if (!dma_dev) { dev_err(&pdev->dev, "alloc dma device failed\n"); return -EINVAL; -- 2.20.1