From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gust...@embeddedor.com>
Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2019 21:13:13 -0600
> 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>
Applied.
