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 <gust...@embeddedor.com>
---
drivers/staging/mt7621-dma/ralink-gdma.c | 6 +++---
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/staging/mt7621-dma/ralink-gdma.c
b/drivers/staging/mt7621-dma/ralink-gdma.c
index 792a63bd55d4..d78042eba6dd 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/mt7621-dma/ralink-gdma.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/mt7621-dma/ralink-gdma.c
@@ -821,9 +821,9 @@ static int gdma_dma_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
return -EINVAL;
data = (struct gdma_data *) match->data;
- dma_dev = devm_kzalloc(&pdev->dev, sizeof(*dma_dev) +
- (sizeof(struct gdma_dmaengine_chan) * data->chancnt),
- GFP_KERNEL);
+ dma_dev = devm_kzalloc(&pdev->dev,
+ struct_size(dma_dev, chan, data->chancnt),
+ GFP_KERNEL);
if (!dma_dev) {
dev_err(&pdev->dev, "alloc dma device failed\n");
return -EINVAL;
--
2.20.1
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