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>
Cc: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
return -EINVAL;
}
- led = kzalloc(sizeof(*led) * pdata->num_leds, GFP_KERNEL);
+ led = kcalloc(pdata->num_leds, sizeof(*led), GFP_KERNEL);
if (led == NULL) {
dev_err(&pdev->dev, "failed to alloc memory\n");
return -ENOMEM;