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>
Acked-by: Michal Nazarewicz <[4]mina86@mina86.com>
Signed-off-by: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com>
ENTER();
count = ffs->eps_count;
- epfiles = kzalloc(count * sizeof *epfiles, GFP_KERNEL);
+ epfiles = kcalloc(count, sizeof(*epfiles), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!epfiles)
return -ENOMEM;
* Create the LUNs, open their backing files, and register the
* LUN devices in sysfs.
*/
- curlun = kzalloc(nluns * sizeof *curlun, GFP_KERNEL);
+ curlun = kcalloc(nluns, sizeof(*curlun), GFP_KERNEL);
if (unlikely(!curlun)) {
rc = -ENOMEM;
goto error_release;