Re: [PATCH] staging: Change kzalloc to kcalloc

From: David Rientjes
Date: Wed Jul 23 2014 - 19:07:43 EST


On Wed, 23 Jul 2014, Nicholas Krause wrote:

> diff --git a/drivers/staging/android/ion/ion_dummy_driver.c b/drivers/staging/android/ion/ion_dummy_driver.c
> index 3a45e79..8883432 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/android/ion/ion_dummy_driver.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/android/ion/ion_dummy_driver.c
> @@ -67,9 +67,8 @@ static int __init ion_dummy_init(void)
> {
> int i, err;
>
> idev = ion_device_create(NULL);
> - heaps = kzalloc(sizeof(struct ion_heap *) * dummy_ion_pdata.nr,
> - GFP_KERNEL);
> + heaps = kcalloc(*dummy_ion_pdata.nr , sizeof((struct ion_heap *) *dummy_ion_pdata.nr) , GFP_KERNEL);
> if (!heaps)
> return -ENOMEM;
>

Nack, this is not equivalent and would not even compile if tried.
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