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) + 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 = 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/vc4/vc4_perfmon.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/vc4/vc4_perfmon.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/vc4/vc4_perfmon.c
index 437e7a27f21d..495150415020 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/vc4/vc4_perfmon.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/vc4/vc4_perfmon.c
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ int vc4_perfmon_create_ioctl(struct drm_device *dev, void *data,
return -EINVAL;
}
- perfmon = kzalloc(sizeof(*perfmon) + (req->ncounters * sizeof(u64)),
+ perfmon = kzalloc(struct_size(perfmon, counters, req->ncounters),
GFP_KERNEL);
if (!perfmon)
return -ENOMEM;
--
2.20.1
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