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 acpi_pnp_device_id_list {
        ...
        struct acpi_pnp_device_id ids[1];       /* ID array */
};

Make use of the struct_size() helper instead of an open-coded version
in order to avoid any potential type mistakes.

So, replace the following form:

sizeof(struct acpi_pnp_device_id_list) + ((count - 1) * sizeof(struct 
acpi_pnp_device_id))

with:

struct_size(cid_list, ids, count - 1)

Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <[email protected]>
---
Notice that checkpatch reports the following warning:

WARNING: line over 80 characters
#54: FILE: drivers/acpi/acpica/utids.c:265:
+       cid_list_size = struct_size(cid_list, ids, count - 1) + 
string_area_size;

The line above is 81-character long. So, I think we should be fine
with that, instead of split it into two lines.

Thanks

 Gustavo

 drivers/acpi/acpica/utids.c | 7 ++-----
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/acpi/acpica/utids.c b/drivers/acpi/acpica/utids.c
index e805abdd95b8..737aa6a8f362 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/acpica/utids.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/acpica/utids.c
@@ -202,7 +202,7 @@ acpi_ut_execute_CID(struct acpi_namespace_node *device_node,
        char *next_id_string;
        u32 string_area_size;
        u32 length;
-       u32 cid_list_size;
+       size_t cid_list_size;
        acpi_status status;
        u32 count;
        u32 i;
@@ -262,10 +262,7 @@ acpi_ut_execute_CID(struct acpi_namespace_node 
*device_node,
         * 2) Size of the CID PNP_DEVICE_ID array +
         * 3) Size of the actual CID strings
         */
-       cid_list_size = sizeof(struct acpi_pnp_device_id_list) +
-           ((count - 1) * sizeof(struct acpi_pnp_device_id)) +
-           string_area_size;
-
+       cid_list_size = struct_size(cid_list, ids, count - 1) + 
string_area_size;
        cid_list = ACPI_ALLOCATE_ZEROED(cid_list_size);
        if (!cid_list) {
                status = AE_NO_MEMORY;
-- 
2.21.0

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