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/gpu/drm/qxl/qxl_display.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/qxl/qxl_display.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/qxl/qxl_display.c index ce0b9c40fc21..c8642712412e 100644 --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/qxl/qxl_display.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/qxl/qxl_display.c @@ -48,8 +48,8 @@ static int qxl_alloc_client_monitors_config(struct qxl_device *qdev, } if (!qdev->client_monitors_config) { qdev->client_monitors_config = kzalloc( - sizeof(struct qxl_monitors_config) + - sizeof(struct qxl_head) * count, GFP_KERNEL); + struct_size(qdev->client_monitors_config, + heads, count), GFP_KERNEL); if (!qdev->client_monitors_config) return -ENOMEM; } -- 2.20.1 _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel