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 { ... struct intent_pair intents[]; } __packed * msg; 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(*msg) + sizeof(struct intent_pair) * count with: struct_size(msg, intents, count) This code was detected with the help of Coccinelle. Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/rpmsg/qcom_glink_native.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/rpmsg/qcom_glink_native.c b/drivers/rpmsg/qcom_glink_native.c index f46c787733e8..621f1afd4d6b 100644 --- a/drivers/rpmsg/qcom_glink_native.c +++ b/drivers/rpmsg/qcom_glink_native.c @@ -892,7 +892,7 @@ static void qcom_glink_handle_intent(struct qcom_glink *glink, struct intent_pair intents[]; } __packed * msg; - const size_t msglen = sizeof(*msg) + sizeof(struct intent_pair) * count; + const size_t msglen = struct_size(msg, intents, count); int ret; int i; unsigned long flags; -- 2.23.0