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;
struct boo entry[];
};
size = sizeof(struct foo) + count * sizeof(struct boo);
instance = devm_kzalloc(dev, size, 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);
Notice that, in this case, variable at24_size is not necessary, hence it
is removed.
This code was detected with the help of Coccinelle.
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/misc/eeprom/at24.c | 5 ++---
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/misc/eeprom/at24.c b/drivers/misc/eeprom/at24.c
index ba8e73812644..78ba6b1917a8 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/eeprom/at24.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/eeprom/at24.c
@@ -568,7 +568,6 @@ static int at24_probe(struct i2c_client *client)
unsigned int i, num_addresses;
struct at24_data *at24;
struct regmap *regmap;
- size_t at24_size;
bool writable;
u8 test_byte;
int err;
@@ -652,8 +651,8 @@ static int at24_probe(struct i2c_client *client)
if (IS_ERR(regmap))
return PTR_ERR(regmap);
- at24_size = sizeof(*at24) + num_addresses * sizeof(struct at24_client);
- at24 = devm_kzalloc(dev, at24_size, GFP_KERNEL);
+ at24 = devm_kzalloc(dev, struct_size(at24, client, num_addresses),
+ GFP_KERNEL);
if (!at24)
return -ENOMEM;
--
2.21.0
