Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Staging rtlwifi efuse fix up a warning kzalloc | From | Joe Perches <> | Date | Sat, 26 Aug 2017 08:26:35 -0700 |
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On Sat, 2017-08-26 at 09:48 -0500, Larry Finger wrote: > I will NACK every > patch that tries to force code that I maintain to use kcalloc over kzalloc.
Your choice.
The concept behind the kzalloc with multiply vs kcalloc is protection against multiplication overflow.
It's unlikely to solve any real problem with a sizeof(foo) * small known number of entries.
It does have application when number of entries is a user specified value.
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