Re: [PATCH] staging: r8188eu: Prefer kcalloc over kzalloc

From: Martin Kaiser
Date: Sun Dec 18 2022 - 10:50:38 EST


Thus wrote Kang Minchul (tegongkang@xxxxxxxxx):

> Fixed following checkpatch.pl warning:
> * WARNING: Prefer kcalloc over kzalloc with multiply

> Instead of specifying (number of bytes) * (size) as arugment
> in kzalloc, prefer kcalloc.

> Signed-off-by: Kang Minchul <tegongkang@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/staging/r8188eu/core/rtw_xmit.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

> diff --git a/drivers/staging/r8188eu/core/rtw_xmit.c b/drivers/staging/r8188eu/core/rtw_xmit.c
> index 34494f08c0cd..36ce1e3f9c81 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/r8188eu/core/rtw_xmit.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/r8188eu/core/rtw_xmit.c
> @@ -1564,7 +1564,7 @@ int rtw_alloc_hwxmits(struct adapter *padapter)

> pxmitpriv->hwxmit_entry = HWXMIT_ENTRY;

> - pxmitpriv->hwxmits = kzalloc(sizeof(struct hw_xmit) * pxmitpriv->hwxmit_entry, GFP_KERNEL);
> + pxmitpriv->hwxmits = kcalloc(pxmitpriv->hwxmit_entry, sizeof(struct hw_xmit), GFP_KERNEL);
> if (!pxmitpriv->hwxmits)
> return -ENOMEM;

> --
> 2.34.1

Reviewed-by: Martin Kaiser <martin@xxxxxxxxx>