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: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
if (!p_cache)
return NULL;
- p_cache->p_info = kzalloc(sizeof(*p_cache->p_info) * control_count,
+ p_cache->p_info = kcalloc(control_count, sizeof(*p_cache->p_info),
GFP_KERNEL);
if (!p_cache->p_info) {
kfree(p_cache);