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 ieee80211_regdomain {
...
struct ieee80211_reg_rule reg_rules[];
};
instance = kzalloc(sizeof(*mac->rd) +
sizeof(struct ieee80211_reg_rule) *
count, GFP_KERNEL);
Instead of leaving these open-coded and prone to type mistakes, we can
now use the new struct_size() helper:
instance = kzalloc(struct_size(instance, reg_rules, count), GFP_KERNEL);
This code was detected with the help of Coccinelle.
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Reviewed-by: Sergey Matyukevich <sergey.matyukevich.os@quantenna.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
if (WARN_ON(resp->n_reg_rules > NL80211_MAX_SUPP_REG_RULES))
return -E2BIG;
- mac->rd = kzalloc(sizeof(*mac->rd) +
- sizeof(struct ieee80211_reg_rule) *
- resp->n_reg_rules, GFP_KERNEL);
+ mac->rd = kzalloc(struct_size(mac->rd, reg_rules, resp->n_reg_rules),
+ GFP_KERNEL);
if (!mac->rd)
return -ENOMEM;