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 ioat_dca_priv { ... struct ioat_dca_slot req_slots[0]; }; Make use of the struct_size() helper instead of an open-coded version in order to avoid any potential type mistakes. So, replace the following form: sizeof(*ioatdca) + (sizeof(struct ioat_dca_slot) * slots) with: struct_size(ioatdca, req_slots, slots) This code was detected with the help of Coccinelle. Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/dma/ioat/dca.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/dma/ioat/dca.c b/drivers/dma/ioat/dca.c index 70fd8454d002..be61c32a876f 100644 --- a/drivers/dma/ioat/dca.c +++ b/drivers/dma/ioat/dca.c @@ -286,8 +286,7 @@ struct dca_provider *ioat_dca_init(struct pci_dev *pdev, void __iomem *iobase) return NULL; dca = alloc_dca_provider(&ioat_dca_ops, - sizeof(*ioatdca) - + (sizeof(struct ioat_dca_slot) * slots)); + struct_size(ioatdca, req_slots, slots)); if (!dca) return NULL; -- 2.23.0