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/ulp/srp/ib_srp.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/ulp/srp/ib_srp.c b/drivers/infiniband/ulp/srp/ib_srp.c index 31d91538bbf4..0f855294ff3f 100644 --- a/drivers/infiniband/ulp/srp/ib_srp.c +++ b/drivers/infiniband/ulp/srp/ib_srp.c @@ -443,8 +443,7 @@ static struct srp_fr_pool *srp_create_fr_pool(struct ib_device *device, if (pool_size <= 0) goto err; ret = -ENOMEM; - pool = kzalloc(sizeof(struct srp_fr_pool) + - pool_size * sizeof(struct srp_fr_desc), GFP_KERNEL); + pool = kzalloc(struct_size(pool, desc, pool_size), GFP_KERNEL); if (!pool) goto err; pool->size = pool_size; -- 2.20.1