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[]; }; instance = kzalloc(sizeof(struct foo) + count * sizeof(struct boo), GFP_KERNEL); Instead of leaving these open-coded and prone to type mistakes, we can now use the new struct_size() helper: instance = kzalloc(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> --- security/integrity/ima/ima_template.c | 5 ++--- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/security/integrity/ima/ima_template.c b/security/integrity/ima/ima_template.c index b631b8bc7624..b945dff2ed14 100644 --- a/security/integrity/ima/ima_template.c +++ b/security/integrity/ima/ima_template.c @@ -281,9 +281,8 @@ static int ima_restore_template_data(struct ima_template_desc *template_desc, int ret = 0; int i; - *entry = kzalloc(sizeof(**entry) + - template_desc->num_fields * sizeof(struct ima_field_data), - GFP_NOFS); + *entry = kzalloc(struct_size(*entry, template_data, + template_desc->num_fields), GFP_NOFS); if (!*entry) return -ENOMEM; -- 2.21.0