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 <thomas@m3y3r.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
msix_table_size = bp->igu_sb_cnt + 1;
/* fp array: RSS plus CNIC related L2 queues */
- fp = kzalloc((BNX2X_MAX_RSS_COUNT(bp) + NON_ETH_CONTEXT_USE) *
+ fp = kcalloc(BNX2X_MAX_RSS_COUNT(bp) + NON_ETH_CONTEXT_USE,
sizeof(*fp), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!fp)
goto alloc_err;
bp->fp = fp;
/* msix table */
- tbl = kzalloc(msix_table_size * sizeof(*tbl), GFP_KERNEL);
+ tbl = kcalloc(msix_table_size, sizeof(*tbl), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!tbl)
goto alloc_err;
bp->msix_table = tbl;
if (!list_empty(&o->registry.exact_match.macs))
return 0;
- elem = kzalloc(sizeof(*elem)*len, GFP_ATOMIC);
+ elem = kcalloc(len, sizeof(*elem), GFP_ATOMIC);
if (!elem) {
BNX2X_ERR("Failed to allocate registry memory\n");
return -ENOMEM;