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| author | Thomas Meyer <thomas@m3y3r.de> | 2012-05-29 15:07:27 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2012-05-29 16:22:31 -0700 |
| commit | 1daef6d27b558d0bde72302ba7062b746887a643 (patch) | |
| tree | ac468cb1810093e81b4d73ff4980d9bd0455cc8e | |
| parent | 872b86be0a285b11b03614456b67fdaf78e86f3d (diff) | |
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leds: 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>
Cc: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/leds/leds-mc13783.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/leds/leds-mc13783.c b/drivers/leds/leds-mc13783.c index 8bc49154155..4cc6a2e3df3 100644 --- a/drivers/leds/leds-mc13783.c +++ b/drivers/leds/leds-mc13783.c @@ -280,7 +280,7 @@ static int __devinit mc13783_led_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) return -EINVAL; } - led = kzalloc(sizeof(*led) * pdata->num_leds, GFP_KERNEL); + led = kcalloc(pdata->num_leds, sizeof(*led), GFP_KERNEL); if (led == NULL) { dev_err(&pdev->dev, "failed to alloc memory\n"); return -ENOMEM; |