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/scsi/advansys.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/scsi/advansys.c b/drivers/scsi/advansys.c index d37584403c33..6c274e6e1c33 100644 --- a/drivers/scsi/advansys.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/advansys.c @@ -7576,8 +7576,8 @@ static int asc_build_req(struct asc_board *boardp, struct scsi_cmnd *scp, return ASC_ERROR; } - asc_sg_head = kzalloc(sizeof(asc_scsi_q->sg_head) + - use_sg * sizeof(struct asc_sg_list), GFP_ATOMIC); + asc_sg_head = kzalloc(struct_size(asc_sg_head, sg_list, use_sg), + GFP_ATOMIC); if (!asc_sg_head) { scsi_dma_unmap(scp); scp->result = HOST_BYTE(DID_SOFT_ERROR); -- 2.20.1