Re: [PATCH] ALSA: ctxf: Use kcalloc instead of kzalloc to allocate array

[Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>]

At Tue, 29 Nov 2011 22:08:00 +0100,
Thomas Meyer wrote:
> 
> 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>

Thanks, applied both this and asihpi patches.


Takashi

> ---
> 
> diff -u -p a/sound/pci/ctxfi/ctsrc.c b/sound/pci/ctxfi/ctsrc.c
> --- a/sound/pci/ctxfi/ctsrc.c 2011-11-13 11:08:15.090921741 +0100
> +++ b/sound/pci/ctxfi/ctsrc.c 2011-11-28 20:14:46.651112893 +0100
> @@ -437,7 +437,7 @@ get_src_rsc(struct src_mgr *mgr, const s
>  
>  	/* Allocate mem for master src resource */
>  	if (MEMRD == desc->mode)
> -		src = kzalloc(sizeof(*src)*desc->multi, GFP_KERNEL);
> +		src = kcalloc(desc->multi, sizeof(*src), GFP_KERNEL);
>  	else
>  		src = kzalloc(sizeof(*src), GFP_KERNEL);
>  
>