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: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
if (ncontrols == 0)
continue;
- entity->controls = kzalloc(ncontrols * sizeof(*ctrl),
+ entity->controls = kcalloc(ncontrols, sizeof(*ctrl),
GFP_KERNEL);
if (entity->controls == NULL)
return -ENOMEM;