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 = kzalloc(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 = 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> --- drivers/infiniband/core/sa_query.c | 4 +--- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/core/sa_query.c b/drivers/infiniband/core/sa_query.c index 97e6d7b69abf..7925e45ea88a 100644 --- a/drivers/infiniband/core/sa_query.c +++ b/drivers/infiniband/core/sa_query.c @@ -2342,9 +2342,7 @@ static void ib_sa_add_one(struct ib_device *device) s = rdma_start_port(device); e = rdma_end_port(device); - sa_dev = kzalloc(sizeof *sa_dev + - (e - s + 1) * sizeof (struct ib_sa_port), - GFP_KERNEL); + sa_dev = kzalloc(struct_size(sa_dev, port, e - s + 1), GFP_KERNEL); if (!sa_dev) return; -- 2.20.1