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From: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] sched.c: use kcalloc
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 04:35:17 -0500 (CDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <mm-sched-3@bga.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mm-sched-0@bga.com>

kcalloc checks for n * sizeof(element) overflows and it zeros.

Signed-off-by: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>


Index: kernel/kernel/sched.c
===================================================================
--- kernel.orig/kernel/sched.c	2007-10-12 03:58:35.000000000 -0500
+++ kernel/kernel/sched.c	2007-10-12 03:58:38.000000000 -0500
@@ -5283,10 +5283,9 @@ static struct ctl_table sd_ctl_root[] = 
 static struct ctl_table *sd_alloc_ctl_entry(int n)
 {
 	struct ctl_table *entry =
-		kmalloc(n * sizeof(struct ctl_table), GFP_KERNEL);
+		kcalloc(n, sizeof(struct ctl_table), GFP_KERNEL);
 
 	BUG_ON(!entry);
-	memset(entry, 0, n * sizeof(struct ctl_table));
 
 	return entry;
 }
@@ -6080,7 +6079,7 @@ static int build_sched_domains(const cpu
 	/*
 	 * Allocate the per-node list of sched groups
 	 */
-	sched_group_nodes = kzalloc(sizeof(struct sched_group *)*MAX_NUMNODES,
+	sched_group_nodes = kcalloc(MAX_NUMNODES, sizeof(struct sched_group *),
 					   GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!sched_group_nodes) {
 		printk(KERN_WARNING "Can not alloc sched group node list\n");

  reply	other threads:[~2007-10-12  9:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-12  9:34 [PATCH] sched domain debug sysctl fixes Milton Miller
2007-10-12  9:35 ` Milton Miller [this message]
2007-10-12  9:35 ` [PATCH] sched domain sysctl: register online cpus Milton Miller
2007-10-12  9:35 ` [PATCH] sched domain sysctl: free and rebuild when changing domains Milton Miller
2007-10-12  9:35 ` [PATCH] sched domain sysctl: don't bug on alloc failure Milton Miller
2007-10-12  9:35 ` [PATCH] sched domain sysctl: sysctl tables can have no holes Milton Miller
2007-10-12  9:54 ` [PATCH] sched domain debug sysctl fixes Milton Miller
2007-10-15  7:47 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-10-15 23:40   ` [PATCH] sched domain sysctl: free kstrdup allocations Milton Miller
2007-10-16  8:44     ` Ingo Molnar

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