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>
Reviewed-by: Jakob Bornecrantz <jakob@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
goto out_clips;
}
- clips = kzalloc(num_clips * sizeof(*clips), GFP_KERNEL);
+ clips = kcalloc(num_clips, sizeof(*clips), GFP_KERNEL);
if (clips == NULL) {
DRM_ERROR("Failed to allocate clip rect list.\n");
ret = -ENOMEM;
goto out_clips;
}
- clips = kzalloc(num_clips * sizeof(*clips), GFP_KERNEL);
+ clips = kcalloc(num_clips, sizeof(*clips), GFP_KERNEL);
if (clips == NULL) {
DRM_ERROR("Failed to allocate clip rect list.\n");
ret = -ENOMEM;