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 = alloc(sizeof(struct foo) + count * sizeof(void *)); Instead of leaving these open-coded and prone to type mistakes, we can now use the new struct_size() helper: instance = alloc(struct_size(instance, entry, count)); This code was detected with the help of Coccinelle. Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/can/usb/kvaser_usb/kvaser_usb_core.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/can/usb/kvaser_usb/kvaser_usb_core.c b/drivers/net/can/usb/kvaser_usb/kvaser_usb_core.c index c89c7d4900d7..0f1d3e807d63 100644 --- a/drivers/net/can/usb/kvaser_usb/kvaser_usb_core.c +++ b/drivers/net/can/usb/kvaser_usb/kvaser_usb_core.c @@ -643,8 +643,7 @@ static int kvaser_usb_init_one(struct kvaser_usb *dev, return err; } - netdev = alloc_candev(sizeof(*priv) + - dev->max_tx_urbs * sizeof(*priv->tx_contexts), + netdev = alloc_candev(struct_size(priv, tx_contexts, dev->max_tx_urbs), dev->max_tx_urbs); if (!netdev) { dev_err(&dev->intf->dev, "Cannot alloc candev\n"); -- 2.20.1