From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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; struct boo entry[]; }; size = sizeof(struct foo) + count * sizeof(struct boo); instance = alloc(size, GFP_KERNEL) Instead of leaving these open-coded and prone to type mistakes, we can now use the new struct_size() helper: size = struct_size(instance, entry, count); This code was detected with the help of Coccinelle. Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Simon Horman <horms+renesas@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_ctl.c | 6 ++---- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_ctl.c b/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_ctl.c index 432141f04af3..446beeb5e7b2 100644 --- a/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_ctl.c +++ b/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_ctl.c @@ -2722,8 +2722,7 @@ do_ip_vs_get_ctl(struct sock *sk, int cmd, void __user *user, int *len) int size; get = (struct ip_vs_get_services *)arg; - size = sizeof(*get) + - sizeof(struct ip_vs_service_entry) * get->num_services; + size = struct_size(get, entrytable, get->num_services); if (*len != size) { pr_err("length: %u != %u\n", *len, size); ret = -EINVAL; @@ -2764,8 +2763,7 @@ do_ip_vs_get_ctl(struct sock *sk, int cmd, void __user *user, int *len) int size; get = (struct ip_vs_get_dests *)arg; - size = sizeof(*get) + - sizeof(struct ip_vs_dest_entry) * get->num_dests; + size = struct_size(get, entrytable, get->num_dests); if (*len != size) { pr_err("length: %u != %u\n", *len, size); ret = -EINVAL; -- 2.11.0