From: Thomas Meyer Date: Thu, 3 May 2012 05:44:25 +0000 (+1000) Subject: leds: Use kcalloc instead of kzalloc to allocate array X-Git-Tag: next-20120503~2^2~102 X-Git-Url: https://git.karo-electronics.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=bb2a600c72959187bd254172945d4aa9875252f9;p=karo-tx-linux.git leds: 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: Andrew Morton --- diff --git a/drivers/leds/leds-mc13783.c b/drivers/leds/leds-mc13783.c index 8bc491541550..4cc6a2e3df34 100644 --- a/drivers/leds/leds-mc13783.c +++ b/drivers/leds/leds-mc13783.c @@ -280,7 +280,7 @@ static int __devinit mc13783_led_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) return -EINVAL; } - led = kzalloc(sizeof(*led) * pdata->num_leds, GFP_KERNEL); + led = kcalloc(pdata->num_leds, sizeof(*led), GFP_KERNEL); if (led == NULL) { dev_err(&pdev->dev, "failed to alloc memory\n"); return -ENOMEM;