]> git.openfabrics.org - ~shefty/rdma-dev.git/commitdiff
[media] uvcvideo: Use kcalloc instead of kzalloc to allocate array
authorThomas Meyer <thomas@m3y3r.de>
Tue, 29 Nov 2011 20:08:00 +0000 (17:08 -0300)
committerMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
Fri, 30 Dec 2011 19:22:12 +0000 (17:22 -0200)
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: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
drivers/media/video/uvc/uvc_ctrl.c

index 3e849d977bd4b2fc8bf0acd66ef964be92b8a9fe..0efd3b10b3537f94662bfb8be82f87ad5f3aee18 100644 (file)
@@ -1874,7 +1874,7 @@ int uvc_ctrl_init_device(struct uvc_device *dev)
                if (ncontrols == 0)
                        continue;
 
-               entity->controls = kzalloc(ncontrols * sizeof(*ctrl),
+               entity->controls = kcalloc(ncontrols, sizeof(*ctrl),
                                           GFP_KERNEL);
                if (entity->controls == NULL)
                        return -ENOMEM;