* [PATCH] USB: wusb: 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/wusbcore/security.c b/drivers/usb/wusbcore/security.c
--- a/drivers/usb/wusbcore/security.c 2011-11-13 11:07:52.997240138 +0100
+++ b/drivers/usb/wusbcore/security.c 2011-11-28 20:06:23.831675334 +0100
@@ -354,7 +354,7 @@ int wusb_dev_4way_handshake(struct wusbh
struct wusb_keydvt_in keydvt_in;
struct wusb_keydvt_out keydvt_out;
- hs = kzalloc(3*sizeof(hs[0]), GFP_KERNEL);
+ hs = kcalloc(3, sizeof(hs[0]), GFP_KERNEL);
if (hs == NULL) {
dev_err(dev, "can't allocate handshake data\n");
goto error_kzalloc;
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