Re: [PATCH] cifs: Use kcalloc instead of kzalloc to allocate array

From: Jeff Layton
Date: Mon Dec 05 2011 - 14:25:43 EST


On Tue, 29 Nov 2011 22:08:00 +0100
Thomas Meyer <thomas@xxxxxxxx> 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.
>
> The semantic patch that makes this change is available
> in https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/11/25/107
>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Meyer <thomas@xxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> diff -u -p a/fs/cifs/cifssmb.c b/fs/cifs/cifssmb.c
> --- a/fs/cifs/cifssmb.c 2011-11-13 11:07:56.343959560 +0100
> +++ b/fs/cifs/cifssmb.c 2011-11-28 19:47:15.006997976 +0100
> @@ -2140,7 +2140,7 @@ cifs_async_writev(struct cifs_writedata
> goto async_writev_out;
>
> /* 1 iov per page + 1 for header */
> - iov = kzalloc((wdata->nr_pages + 1) * sizeof(*iov), GFP_NOFS);
> + iov = kcalloc(wdata->nr_pages + 1, sizeof(*iov), GFP_NOFS);
> if (iov == NULL) {
> rc = -ENOMEM;
> goto async_writev_out;
> --
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Looks correct.

Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxx>
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