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mm: use kcalloc() instead of kzalloc() to allocate array
authorThomas Meyer <thomas@m3y3r.de>
Tue, 29 May 2012 22:06:21 +0000 (15:06 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Tue, 29 May 2012 23:22:19 +0000 (16:22 -0700)
commit36298fcc38d58833142f72f5853008c13c935d7c
tree751f06891f6ffa0aaac13090e84010f26a612056
parent0cca3789f5b8aba3cee985920f09fcfbfa2e52e5
mm: use kcalloc() instead of kzalloc() to allocate array

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: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/vmalloc.c