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 <gustavo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/tty/serial/max310x.c | 3 +--
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/max310x.c b/drivers/tty/serial/max310x.c
index 4f479841769a..1d700a8ab517 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/serial/max310x.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/max310x.c
@@ -1197,8 +1197,7 @@ static int max310x_probe(struct device *dev, struct max310x_devtype *devtype,
return PTR_ERR(regmap);
/* Alloc port structure */
- s = devm_kzalloc(dev, sizeof(*s) +
- sizeof(struct max310x_one) * devtype->nr, GFP_KERNEL);
+ s = devm_kzalloc(dev, struct_size(s, p, devtype->nr), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!s) {
dev_err(dev, "Error allocating port structure\n");
return -ENOMEM;