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 = alloc(sizeof(struct foo) + count * sizeof(void *));
Instead of leaving these open-coded and prone to type mistakes, we can
now use the new struct_size() helper:
instance = alloc(struct_size(instance, entry, count));
This code was detected with the help of Coccinelle.
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gust...@embeddedor.com>
---
drivers/net/can/usb/kvaser_usb/kvaser_usb_core.c | 3 +--
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/can/usb/kvaser_usb/kvaser_usb_core.c
b/drivers/net/can/usb/kvaser_usb/kvaser_usb_core.c
index c89c7d4900d7..0f1d3e807d63 100644
--- a/drivers/net/can/usb/kvaser_usb/kvaser_usb_core.c
+++ b/drivers/net/can/usb/kvaser_usb/kvaser_usb_core.c
@@ -643,8 +643,7 @@ static int kvaser_usb_init_one(struct kvaser_usb *dev,
return err;
}
- netdev = alloc_candev(sizeof(*priv) +
- dev->max_tx_urbs * sizeof(*priv->tx_contexts),
+ netdev = alloc_candev(struct_size(priv, tx_contexts, dev->max_tx_urbs),
dev->max_tx_urbs);
if (!netdev) {
dev_err(&dev->intf->dev, "Cannot alloc candev\n");
--
2.20.1
