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mm: use kcalloc() instead of kzalloc() to allocate array
authorThomas Meyer <thomas@m3y3r.de>
Tue, 29 May 2012 22:06:21 +0000 (15:06 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Tue, 29 May 2012 23:22:19 +0000 (16:22 -0700)
commit4d67d860531ad5378dedfad7661c540f3365013d
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parentf62388187207bea83f1865d507bf892a1f9152c3commit | diff
mm: use kcalloc() instead of kzalloc() to allocate array

The advantage of kcalloc is, that will prevent integer overflows which
could result from the multiplication of number of elements and size and
it is also a bit nicer to read.

The semantic patch that makes this change is available in
https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/11/25/107

Signed-off-by: Thomas Meyer <thomas@m3y3r.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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