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: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
DRM_DEBUG_KMS("no child dev is parsed from VBT\n");
return;
}
- dev_priv->child_dev = kzalloc(sizeof(*p_child) * count, GFP_KERNEL);
+ dev_priv->child_dev = kcalloc(count, sizeof(*p_child), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!dev_priv->child_dev) {
DRM_DEBUG_KMS("No memory space for child device\n");
return;