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 = kmalloc(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 = kmalloc(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/infiniband/hw/usnic/usnic_uiom.c | 5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/usnic/usnic_uiom.c 
b/drivers/infiniband/hw/usnic/usnic_uiom.c
index 49275a548751..ce01a59fccc4 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/usnic/usnic_uiom.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/usnic/usnic_uiom.c
@@ -157,9 +157,8 @@ static int usnic_uiom_get_pages(unsigned long addr, size_t 
size, int writable,
                off = 0;
 
                while (ret) {
-                       chunk = kmalloc(sizeof(*chunk) +
-                                       sizeof(struct scatterlist) *
-                                       min_t(int, ret, USNIC_UIOM_PAGE_CHUNK),
+                       chunk = kmalloc(struct_size(chunk, page_list,
+                                       min_t(int, ret, USNIC_UIOM_PAGE_CHUNK)),
                                        GFP_KERNEL);
                        if (!chunk) {
                                ret = -ENOMEM;
-- 
2.20.1

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