From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2019 21:13:13 -0600 > 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 = alloc(sizeof(struct foo) + count * sizeof(void *)); > > Instead of leaving these open-coded and prone to type mistakes, we can > now use the new struct_size() helper: > > instance = alloc(struct_size(instance, entry, count)); > > This code was detected with the help of Coccinelle. > > Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Applied.