"Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gust...@embeddedor.com> wrote:
> 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 = kzalloc(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 = 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>
> Reviewed-by: Sergey Matyukevich <sergey.matyukevich...@quantenna.com>
Patch applied to wireless-drivers-next.git, thanks.
db040dfa53e2 qtnfmac: use struct_size() in kzalloc()
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