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/fsl-edma-common.c | 4 +--- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/dma/fsl-edma-common.c b/drivers/dma/fsl-edma-common.c index 8876c4c1bb2c..fe529100674f 100644 --- a/drivers/dma/fsl-edma-common.c +++ b/drivers/dma/fsl-edma-common.c @@ -339,9 +339,7 @@ static struct fsl_edma_desc *fsl_edma_alloc_desc(struct fsl_edma_chan *fsl_chan, struct fsl_edma_desc *fsl_desc; int i; - fsl_desc = kzalloc(sizeof(*fsl_desc) + - sizeof(struct fsl_edma_sw_tcd) * - sg_len, GFP_NOWAIT); + fsl_desc = kzalloc(struct_size(fsl_desc, tcd, sg_len), GFP_NOWAIT); if (!fsl_desc) return NULL; -- 2.20.1