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From: Thomas Meyer <thomas@m3y3r.de>
To: linville@tuxdriver.com, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] iwlegacy: Use kcalloc instead of kzalloc to allocate array
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2011 22:08:00 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1322600880.1534.324.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)

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/net/wireless/iwlegacy/iwl-tx.c b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlegacy/iwl-tx.c
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlegacy/iwl-tx.c 2011-11-13 11:07:38.540345582 +0100
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlegacy/iwl-tx.c 2011-11-28 19:55:42.036442592 +0100
@@ -297,8 +297,8 @@ static int iwl_legacy_tx_queue_alloc(str
 	/* Driver private data, only for Tx (not command) queues,
 	 * not shared with device. */
 	if (id != priv->cmd_queue) {
-		txq->txb = kzalloc(sizeof(txq->txb[0]) *
-				   TFD_QUEUE_SIZE_MAX, GFP_KERNEL);
+		txq->txb = kcalloc(TFD_QUEUE_SIZE_MAX, sizeof(txq->txb[0]),
+				   GFP_KERNEL);
 		if (!txq->txb) {
 			IWL_ERR(priv, "kmalloc for auxiliary BD "
 				  "structures failed\n");

                 reply	other threads:[~2011-12-03  8:28 UTC|newest]

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