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>
---
net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/verbs.c | 3 +--
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/verbs.c b/net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/verbs.c
index 4994e75945b8..9e8cf7456840 100644
--- a/net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/verbs.c
+++ b/net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/verbs.c
@@ -811,8 +811,7 @@ static struct rpcrdma_sendctx *rpcrdma_sendctx_create(struct rpcrdma_ia *ia)
{
struct rpcrdma_sendctx *sc;
- sc = kzalloc(sizeof(*sc) +
- ia->ri_max_send_sges * sizeof(struct ib_sge),
+ sc = kzalloc(struct_size(sc, sc_sges, ia->ri_max_send_sges),
GFP_KERNEL);
if (!sc)
return NULL;
--
2.20.1
