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: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
return -ENOMEM;
}
- pipe_info = kzalloc(sizeof(*pipe_info) * pipe_size, GFP_KERNEL);
+ pipe_info = kcalloc(pipe_size, sizeof(*pipe_info), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!pipe_info) {
dev_err(dev, "Could not allocate pipe_info\n");
goto usbhs_mod_host_probe_err;