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>
if (dev->isobufs)
STK_ERROR("isobufs already allocated. Bad\n");
else
- dev->isobufs = kzalloc(MAX_ISO_BUFS * sizeof(*dev->isobufs),
- GFP_KERNEL);
+ dev->isobufs = kcalloc(MAX_ISO_BUFS, sizeof(*dev->isobufs),
+ GFP_KERNEL);
if (dev->isobufs == NULL) {
STK_ERROR("Unable to allocate iso buffers\n");
return -ENOMEM;
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&hdl->ctrls);
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&hdl->ctrl_refs);
hdl->nr_of_buckets = 1 + nr_of_controls_hint / 8;
- hdl->buckets = kzalloc(sizeof(hdl->buckets[0]) * hdl->nr_of_buckets,
- GFP_KERNEL);
+ hdl->buckets = kcalloc(hdl->nr_of_buckets, sizeof(hdl->buckets[0]),
+ GFP_KERNEL);
hdl->error = hdl->buckets ? 0 : -ENOMEM;
return hdl->error;
}