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 = kzalloc(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 = kzalloc(struct_size(instance, entry, count), GFP_KERNEL);
This code was detected with the help of Coccinelle.
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com>
if (pool_size <= 0)
goto err;
ret = -ENOMEM;
- pool = kzalloc(sizeof(struct srp_fr_pool) +
- pool_size * sizeof(struct srp_fr_desc), GFP_KERNEL);
+ pool = kzalloc(struct_size(pool, desc, pool_size), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!pool)
goto err;
pool->size = pool_size;