diff --git a/sound/soc/codecs/sigmadsp.c b/sound/soc/codecs/sigmadsp.c
index 3343dbb63d2b..2e08fde3989c 100644
--- a/sound/soc/codecs/sigmadsp.c
+++ b/sound/soc/codecs/sigmadsp.c
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ struct sigmadsp_control {
 	struct snd_kcontrol *kcontrol;
 	bool is_readback;
 	bool cached;
-	uint8_t cache[];
+	u8 cache[] __counted_by(num_bytes);
 };
 
 struct sigmadsp_data {
@@ -223,7 +223,7 @@ static int sigma_fw_load_control(struct sigmadsp *sigmadsp,
 		return -EINVAL;
 
 	num_bytes = le16_to_cpu(ctrl_chunk->num_bytes);
-	ctrl = kzalloc(sizeof(*ctrl) + num_bytes, GFP_KERNEL);
+	ctrl = kzalloc_flex(*ctrl, cache, num_bytes);
 	if (!ctrl)
 		return -ENOMEM;