Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 23 May 2014 10:27:48 +0200 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] staging: usbip: use kcalloc instead of kzalloc for array allocations | From | Richard Weinberger <> |
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On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 12:17 PM, Djordje Zekovic <dj@zeko.me> wrote: > 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. > > Signed-off-by: Djordje Zekovic <dj@zeko.me> > --- > drivers/staging/usbip/stub_tx.c | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/staging/usbip/stub_tx.c b/drivers/staging/usbip/stub_tx.c > index 1622563..4994090 100644 > --- a/drivers/staging/usbip/stub_tx.c > +++ b/drivers/staging/usbip/stub_tx.c > @@ -179,7 +179,7 @@ static int stub_send_ret_submit(struct stub_device *sdev) > else > iovnum = 2; > > - iov = kzalloc(iovnum * sizeof(struct kvec), GFP_KERNEL); > + iov = kcalloc(iovnum * sizeof(struct kvec), GFP_KERNEL);
Does this even build?
static inline void *kcalloc(size_t n, size_t size, gfp_t flags)
-- Thanks, //richard
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