On Fri, Jan 4, 2019 at 10:35 PM Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 = devm_kzalloc(dev, sizeof(struct foo) + sizeof(void *) * count, GFP_KERNEL); > > Instead of leaving these open-coded and prone to type mistakes, we can > now use the new struct_size() helper: > > instance = devm_kzalloc(dev, 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> Patch applied. Yours, Linus Walleij