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[];
};
size = sizeof(struct foo) + count * sizeof(struct boo);
instance = kzalloc(size, 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);
Notice that, in this case, variable size is not necessary, hence
it is removed.
This code was detected with the help of Coccinelle.
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gust...@embeddedor.com>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/fm10k/fm10k_main.c | 6 ++----
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/fm10k/fm10k_main.c
b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/fm10k/fm10k_main.c
index 6fd15a734324..5a0419421511 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/fm10k/fm10k_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/fm10k/fm10k_main.c
@@ -1603,14 +1603,12 @@ static int fm10k_alloc_q_vector(struct fm10k_intfc
*interface,
{
struct fm10k_q_vector *q_vector;
struct fm10k_ring *ring;
- int ring_count, size;
+ int ring_count;
ring_count = txr_count + rxr_count;
- size = sizeof(struct fm10k_q_vector) +
- (sizeof(struct fm10k_ring) * ring_count);
/* allocate q_vector and rings */
- q_vector = kzalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
+ q_vector = kzalloc(struct_size(q_vector, ring, ring_count), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!q_vector)
return -ENOMEM;
--
2.20.1
