Messages in this thread Patch in this message |  | | Subject | [PATCH] IB/ehca: Use kcalloc instead of kzalloc to allocate array | | From | Thomas Meyer <> | | Date | Tue, 29 Nov 2011 22:08:00 +0100 |
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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/hw/ehca/ehca_qp.c b/drivers/infiniband/hw/ehca/ehca_qp.c --- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/ehca/ehca_qp.c 2011-11-13 11:07:26.513489332 +0100 +++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/ehca/ehca_qp.c 2011-11-28 19:51:39.771888018 +0100 @@ -853,10 +853,9 @@ static struct ehca_qp *internal_create_q /* alloc array to cache subsequent modify qp parms * for autodetect mode */ - my_qp->mod_qp_parm = - kzalloc(EHCA_MOD_QP_PARM_MAX * - sizeof(*my_qp->mod_qp_parm), - GFP_KERNEL); + my_qp->mod_qp_parm = kcalloc(EHCA_MOD_QP_PARM_MAX, + sizeof(*my_qp->mod_qp_parm), + GFP_KERNEL); if (!my_qp->mod_qp_parm) { ehca_err(pd->device, "Could not alloc mod_qp_parm");
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