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 = devm_kzalloc(dev, 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 = devm_kzalloc(dev, 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: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>
}
/* Alloc the nand chip structure */
- marvell_nand = devm_kzalloc(dev, sizeof(*marvell_nand) +
- (nsels *
- sizeof(struct marvell_nand_chip_sel)),
+ marvell_nand = devm_kzalloc(dev,
+ struct_size(marvell_nand, sels, nsels),
GFP_KERNEL);
if (!marvell_nand) {
dev_err(dev, "could not allocate chip structure\n");