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 acpi_pnp_device_id_list { ... struct acpi_pnp_device_id ids[1]; /* ID array */ }; 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(struct acpi_pnp_device_id_list) + ((count - 1) * sizeof(struct acpi_pnp_device_id)) with: struct_size(cid_list, ids, count - 1) Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Notice that checkpatch reports the following warning: WARNING: line over 80 characters #54: FILE: drivers/acpi/acpica/utids.c:265: + cid_list_size = struct_size(cid_list, ids, count - 1) + string_area_size; The line above is 81-character long. So, I think we should be fine with that, instead of split it into two lines. Thanks Gustavo drivers/acpi/acpica/utids.c | 7 ++----- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/acpi/acpica/utids.c b/drivers/acpi/acpica/utids.c index e805abdd95b8..737aa6a8f362 100644 --- a/drivers/acpi/acpica/utids.c +++ b/drivers/acpi/acpica/utids.c @@ -202,7 +202,7 @@ acpi_ut_execute_CID(struct acpi_namespace_node *device_node, char *next_id_string; u32 string_area_size; u32 length; - u32 cid_list_size; + size_t cid_list_size; acpi_status status; u32 count; u32 i; @@ -262,10 +262,7 @@ acpi_ut_execute_CID(struct acpi_namespace_node *device_node, * 2) Size of the CID PNP_DEVICE_ID array + * 3) Size of the actual CID strings */ - cid_list_size = sizeof(struct acpi_pnp_device_id_list) + - ((count - 1) * sizeof(struct acpi_pnp_device_id)) + - string_area_size; - + cid_list_size = struct_size(cid_list, ids, count - 1) + string_area_size; cid_list = ACPI_ALLOCATE_ZEROED(cid_list_size); if (!cid_list) { status = AE_NO_MEMORY; -- 2.21.0