* [PATCH] usb: gadget: renesas_usbhs: Use kcalloc instead of kzalloc to allocate array
@ 2011-11-29 21:08 Thomas Meyer
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From: Thomas Meyer @ 2011-11-29 21:08 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-usb, linux-kernel
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>
---
diff -u -p a/drivers/usb/renesas_usbhs/mod_host.c b/drivers/usb/renesas_usbhs/mod_host.c
--- a/drivers/usb/renesas_usbhs/mod_host.c 2011-11-28 19:36:48.033448938 +0100
+++ b/drivers/usb/renesas_usbhs/mod_host.c 2011-11-28 20:04:59.954526908 +0100
@@ -1268,7 +1268,7 @@ int usbhs_mod_host_probe(struct usbhs_pr
return -ENOMEM;
}
- pipe_info = kzalloc(sizeof(*pipe_info) * pipe_size, GFP_KERNEL);
+ pipe_info = kcalloc(pipe_size, sizeof(*pipe_info), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!pipe_info) {
dev_err(dev, "Could not allocate pipe_info\n");
goto usbhs_mod_host_probe_err;
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