Re: [PATCH] staging: usbip: use kcalloc instead of kzalloc for array allocations

From: Richard Weinberger
Date: Fri May 23 2014 - 04:30:53 EST


On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 12:17 PM, Djordje Zekovic <dj@xxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> 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)

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Thanks,
//richard
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