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enic: Use kcalloc instead of kzalloc to allocate array
authorThomas Meyer <thomas@m3y3r.de>
Tue, 29 Nov 2011 11:08:00 +0000 (11:08 +0000)
committerJoe Jin <joe.jin@oracle.com>
Wed, 29 Aug 2012 00:22:08 +0000 (08:22 +0800)
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

(cherry picked from commit a1de22191bc4c47ff50ef3274295f4384074696b)
Signed-off-by: Thomas Meyer <thomas@m3y3r.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Joe Jin <joe.jin@oracle.com>
drivers/net/enic/enic_main.c

index 32475cb74f80218781cddf7dbc6e3c12b7cd3159..2f157d9c26fdf30c4d0fc66d7e17301aea8b83bb 100644 (file)
@@ -2385,7 +2385,7 @@ static int __devinit enic_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev,
 
 #endif
        /* Allocate structure for port profiles */
-       enic->pp = kzalloc(num_pps * sizeof(*enic->pp), GFP_KERNEL);
+       enic->pp = kcalloc(num_pps, sizeof(*enic->pp), GFP_KERNEL);
        if (!enic->pp) {
                pr_err("port profile alloc failed, aborting\n");
                err = -ENOMEM;