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Gustavo A. R. Silva authored
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 = vzalloc(sizeof(struct foo) + count * sizeof(struct boo)); Instead of leaving these open-coded and prone to type mistakes, use the new struct_size() helper: instance = vzalloc(struct_size(instance, entry, count)); This code was detected with the help of Coccinelle. Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190403184230.GA5295@embeddedor
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