From: Thomas Meyer Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2011 21:08:00 +0000 (+0100) Subject: uwb: Use kcalloc instead of kzalloc to allocate array X-Git-Url: https://git.karo-electronics.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=a451eaf9c57feaacfd76226a06bd57c4b66a6ab3;p=linux-beck.git uwb: Use kcalloc instead of kzalloc to allocate array 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 Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- diff --git a/drivers/uwb/est.c b/drivers/uwb/est.c index de81ebf51784..86ed7e61e597 100644 --- a/drivers/uwb/est.c +++ b/drivers/uwb/est.c @@ -184,7 +184,7 @@ int uwb_est_create(void) uwb_est_size = 2; uwb_est_used = 0; - uwb_est = kzalloc(uwb_est_size * sizeof(uwb_est[0]), GFP_KERNEL); + uwb_est = kcalloc(uwb_est_size, sizeof(uwb_est[0]), GFP_KERNEL); if (uwb_est == NULL) return -ENOMEM;