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 bio_map_data { ... struct iovec iov[]; }; instance = kmalloc(sizeof(sizeof(struct bio_map_data) + sizeof(struct iovec) * count, GFP_KERNEL); Instead of leaving these open-coded and prone to type mistakes, we can now use the new struct_size() helper: instance = kmalloc(struct_size(instance, iov, count), GFP_KERNEL); This code was detected with the help of Coccinelle. Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- block/bio.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/block/bio.c b/block/bio.c index 683cbb40f051..4bcdcd3f63f4 100644 --- a/block/bio.c +++ b/block/bio.c @@ -1120,8 +1120,7 @@ static struct bio_map_data *bio_alloc_map_data(struct iov_iter *data, if (data->nr_segs > UIO_MAXIOV) return NULL; - bmd = kmalloc(sizeof(struct bio_map_data) + - sizeof(struct iovec) * data->nr_segs, gfp_mask); + bmd = kmalloc(struct_size(bmd, iov, data->nr_segs), gfp_mask); if (!bmd) return NULL; memcpy(bmd->iov, data->iov, sizeof(struct iovec) * data->nr_segs); -- 2.21.0