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 = kzalloc(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 = kzalloc(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>
---
 net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/verbs.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/verbs.c b/net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/verbs.c
index 4994e75945b8..9e8cf7456840 100644
--- a/net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/verbs.c
+++ b/net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/verbs.c
@@ -811,8 +811,7 @@ static struct rpcrdma_sendctx 
*rpcrdma_sendctx_create(struct rpcrdma_ia *ia)
 {
        struct rpcrdma_sendctx *sc;
 
-       sc = kzalloc(sizeof(*sc) +
-                    ia->ri_max_send_sges * sizeof(struct ib_sge),
+       sc = kzalloc(struct_size(sc, sc_sges, ia->ri_max_send_sges),
                     GFP_KERNEL);
        if (!sc)
                return NULL;
-- 
2.20.1

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