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[];
};
instance = kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
Instead of leaving these open-coded and prone to type mistakes, we can
now use the new struct_size() helper:
instance = kmalloc(struct_size(instance, entry, count), GFP_KERNEL);
This code was detected with the help of Coccinelle.
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Signed-off-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
int idx = 0;
struct page **pages;
- r10b = kmalloc(sizeof(*r10b) +
- sizeof(struct r10dev) * conf->copies, GFP_NOIO);
+ r10b = kmalloc(struct_size(r10b, devs, conf->copies), GFP_NOIO);
if (!r10b) {
set_bit(MD_RECOVERY_INTR, &mddev->recovery);
return -ENOMEM;