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>
#endif
/* Allocate structure for port profiles */
- enic->pp = kzalloc(num_pps * sizeof(*enic->pp), GFP_KERNEL);
+ enic->pp = kcalloc(num_pps, sizeof(*enic->pp), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!enic->pp) {
pr_err("port profile alloc failed, aborting\n");
err = -ENOMEM;