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: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
n_array, fname, name,
priv->firm_version >> 8, priv->firm_version & 0xff);
- priv->firm = kzalloc(sizeof(*priv->firm) * n_array, GFP_KERNEL);
+ priv->firm = kcalloc(n_array, sizeof(*priv->firm), GFP_KERNEL);
if (priv->firm == NULL) {
tuner_err("Not enough memory to load firmware file.\n");
rc = -ENOMEM;
n_array, fname, name,
priv->firm_version >> 8, priv->firm_version & 0xff);
- priv->firm = kzalloc(sizeof(*priv->firm) * n_array, GFP_KERNEL);
+ priv->firm = kcalloc(n_array, sizeof(*priv->firm), GFP_KERNEL);
if (priv->firm == NULL) {
printk(KERN_ERR "Not enough memory to load firmware file.\n");
rc = -ENOMEM;