* [PATCH] IPoIB: 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-rdma, 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/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_main.c b/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_main.c
--- a/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_main.c 2011-11-13 11:07:26.816827448 +0100
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_main.c 2011-11-28 19:51:19.444842130 +0100
@@ -933,7 +933,7 @@ int ipoib_dev_init(struct net_device *de
struct ipoib_dev_priv *priv = netdev_priv(dev);
/* Allocate RX/TX "rings" to hold queued skbs */
- priv->rx_ring = kzalloc(ipoib_recvq_size * sizeof *priv->rx_ring,
+ priv->rx_ring = kcalloc(ipoib_recvq_size, sizeof(*priv->rx_ring),
GFP_KERNEL);
if (!priv->rx_ring) {
printk(KERN_WARNING "%s: failed to allocate RX ring (%d entries)\n",
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