From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] net: use kcalloc in netdev_queue alloc
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 11:19:33 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080721111933.4cdad67f@extreme> (raw)
Minor nit, use size_t for allocation size and kcalloc to allocate
an array. Probably makes no actual code difference.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
--- a/net/core/dev.c 2008-07-21 11:13:29.000000000 -0700
+++ b/net/core/dev.c 2008-07-21 11:15:12.000000000 -0700
@@ -4198,7 +4198,7 @@ struct net_device *alloc_netdev_mq(int s
{
struct netdev_queue *tx;
struct net_device *dev;
- int alloc_size;
+ size_t alloc_size;
void *p;
BUG_ON(strlen(name) >= sizeof(dev->name));
@@ -4218,7 +4218,7 @@ struct net_device *alloc_netdev_mq(int s
return NULL;
}
- tx = kzalloc(sizeof(struct netdev_queue) * queue_count, GFP_KERNEL);
+ tx = kcalloc(queue_count, sizeof(struct netdev_queue), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!tx) {
printk(KERN_ERR "alloc_netdev: Unable to allocate "
"tx qdiscs.\n");
next reply other threads:[~2008-07-21 18:19 UTC|newest]
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2008-07-21 18:19 Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2008-07-21 20:28 ` [PATCH] net: use kcalloc in netdev_queue alloc David Miller
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