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 = devm_kzalloc(dev, 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 = devm_kzalloc(dev, 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/dma/tegra20-apb-dma.c | 5 +++--
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/dma/tegra20-apb-dma.c b/drivers/dma/tegra20-apb-dma.c
index 9a558e30c461..697f316055cf 100644
--- a/drivers/dma/tegra20-apb-dma.c
+++ b/drivers/dma/tegra20-apb-dma.c
@@ -1319,8 +1319,9 @@ static int tegra_dma_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
return -ENODEV;
}
- tdma = devm_kzalloc(&pdev->dev, sizeof(*tdma) + cdata->nr_channels *
- sizeof(struct tegra_dma_channel), GFP_KERNEL);
+ tdma = devm_kzalloc(&pdev->dev,
+ struct_size(tdma, channels, cdata->nr_channels),
+ GFP_KERNEL);
if (!tdma)
return -ENOMEM;
--
2.20.1
