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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/dma/st_fdma.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/dma/st_fdma.c b/drivers/dma/st_fdma.c index 07c20aa2e955..df6b73028ecb 100644 --- a/drivers/dma/st_fdma.c +++ b/drivers/dma/st_fdma.c @@ -243,8 +243,7 @@ static struct st_fdma_desc *st_fdma_alloc_desc(struct st_fdma_chan *fchan, struct st_fdma_desc *fdesc; int i; - fdesc = kzalloc(sizeof(*fdesc) + - sizeof(struct st_fdma_sw_node) * sg_len, GFP_NOWAIT); + fdesc = kzalloc(struct_size(fdesc, node, sg_len), GFP_NOWAIT); if (!fdesc) return NULL; -- 2.20.1