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: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
n = enumerate_cpuinfo_nodes(tmp_level);
- new_tree = kzalloc(sizeof(struct cpuinfo_tree) +
- (sizeof(struct cpuinfo_node) * n), GFP_ATOMIC);
+ new_tree = kzalloc(struct_size(new_tree, nodes, n), GFP_ATOMIC);
if (!new_tree)
return NULL;