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 = kmalloc(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 = kmalloc(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>
---
drivers/mtd/chips/gen_probe.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/mtd/chips/gen_probe.c b/drivers/mtd/chips/gen_probe.c
index 837b04ab96a9..839ed40625d6 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/chips/gen_probe.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/chips/gen_probe.c
@@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ static struct cfi_private *genprobe_ident_chips(struct
map_info *map, struct chi
* our caller, and copy the appropriate data into them.
*/
- retcfi = kmalloc(sizeof(struct cfi_private) + cfi.numchips *
sizeof(struct flchip), GFP_KERNEL);
+ retcfi = kmalloc(struct_size(retcfi, chips, cfi.numchips), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!retcfi) {
kfree(cfi.cfiq);
--
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