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>
---
drivers/i2c/muxes/i2c-demux-pinctrl.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/i2c/muxes/i2c-demux-pinctrl.c b/drivers/i2c/muxes/i2c-demux-pinctrl.c
index 035032e20327..012b45e447c3 100644
--- a/drivers/i2c/muxes/i2c-demux-pinctrl.c
+++ b/drivers/i2c/muxes/i2c-demux-pinctrl.c
@@ -219,8 +219,8 @@ static int i2c_demux_pinctrl_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
return -EINVAL;
}
- priv = devm_kzalloc(&pdev->dev, sizeof(*priv)
- + num_chan * sizeof(struct i2c_demux_pinctrl_chan), GFP_KERNEL);
+ priv = devm_kzalloc(&pdev->dev, struct_size(priv, chan, num_chan),
+ GFP_KERNEL);
props = devm_kcalloc(&pdev->dev, num_chan, sizeof(*props), GFP_KERNEL);
--
2.20.1
