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 <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <[email protected]>
/* Allocate mem for master src resource */
if (MEMRD == desc->mode)
- src = kzalloc(sizeof(*src)*desc->multi, GFP_KERNEL);
+ src = kcalloc(desc->multi, sizeof(*src), GFP_KERNEL);
else
src = kzalloc(sizeof(*src), GFP_KERNEL);