[PATCH v2 1/2] tracing: Prefer kcalloc over kzalloc with multiply

From: Gil Fruchter
Date: Tue Jun 09 2015 - 03:34:19 EST


Use kcalloc for allocating an array instead of kzalloc with multiply,
as that is what kcalloc is used for.
Found with checkpatch.

Signed-off-by: Gil Fruchter <gilf@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/trace/trace.c | 2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c
index 0533049..57ffc4a 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c
@@ -3034,7 +3034,7 @@ __tracing_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file, bool snapshot)
if (!iter)
return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);

- iter->buffer_iter = kzalloc(sizeof(*iter->buffer_iter) * num_possible_cpus(),
+ iter->buffer_iter = kcalloc(num_possible_cpus(), sizeof(*iter->buffer_iter),
GFP_KERNEL);
if (!iter->buffer_iter)
goto release;
--
1.7.1

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