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;
struct boo entry[];
};
instance = devm_kzalloc(dev, sizeof(struct foo) + count * sizeof(struct boo), 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@embeddedor.com>
Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
return -ENOMEM;
/* Create a gpiod lookup using gpiochip-local offsets */
- lookup = devm_kzalloc(&pdev->dev,
- sizeof(*lookup) + 3 * sizeof(struct gpiod_lookup),
+ lookup = devm_kzalloc(&pdev->dev, struct_size(lookup, table, 3),
GFP_KERNEL);
if (!lookup)
return -ENOMEM;