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: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
/* Driver ilate data, only for Tx (not command) queues,
* not shared with device. */
if (id != il->cmd_queue) {
- txq->txb =
- kzalloc(sizeof(txq->txb[0]) * TFD_QUEUE_SIZE_MAX,
- GFP_KERNEL);
+ txq->txb = kcalloc(TFD_QUEUE_SIZE_MAX, sizeof(txq->txb[0]),
+ GFP_KERNEL);
if (!txq->txb) {
IL_ERR("kmalloc for auxiliary BD "
"structures failed\n");