@@ -237,7 +237,6 @@ static int get_registers(struct platform_device *pdev, struct combiner *comb)
static int __init combiner_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
{
struct combiner *combiner;
- size_t alloc_sz;
int nregs;
int err;
@@ -247,8 +246,8 @@ static int __init combiner_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
return -EINVAL;
}
- alloc_sz = sizeof(*combiner) + sizeof(struct combiner_reg) * nregs;
- combiner = devm_kzalloc(&pdev->dev, alloc_sz, GFP_KERNEL);
+ combiner = devm_kzalloc(&pdev->dev, struct_size(combiner, regs, nregs),
+ GFP_KERNEL);
if (!combiner)
return -ENOMEM;
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: instance = alloc(struct_size(instance, entry, count), GFP_KERNEL) Notice that, in this case, variable alloc_sz is not necessary, hence it is removed. This code was detected with the help of Coccinelle. Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com> --- drivers/irqchip/qcom-irq-combiner.c | 5 ++--- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)