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 <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Signed-off-by: Vinod Koul <vkoul@kernel.org>
struct axi_dmac_desc *desc;
unsigned int i;
- desc = kzalloc(sizeof(struct axi_dmac_desc) +
- sizeof(struct axi_dmac_sg) * num_sgs, GFP_NOWAIT);
+ desc = kzalloc(struct_size(desc, sg, num_sgs), GFP_NOWAIT);
if (!desc)
return NULL;