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>
Acked-By: Mike Isely <isely@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
}
/* Define and configure additional controls from cx2341x module. */
- hdw->mpeg_ctrl_info = kzalloc(
- sizeof(*(hdw->mpeg_ctrl_info)) * MPEGDEF_COUNT, GFP_KERNEL);
+ hdw->mpeg_ctrl_info = kcalloc(MPEGDEF_COUNT,
+ sizeof(*(hdw->mpeg_ctrl_info)),
+ GFP_KERNEL);
if (!hdw->mpeg_ctrl_info) goto fail;
for (idx = 0; idx < MPEGDEF_COUNT; idx++) {
cptr = hdw->controls + idx + CTRLDEF_COUNT;