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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)
commit406fc5985c69a7f518f2da2c2e21b24d389c77d7
tree751f06891f6ffa0aaac13090e84010f26a612056
parentc95f0c1b9f0d436de002999806395132d4622d36
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