Re: [PATCH] [media] uvcvideo: Use kcalloc instead of kzalloc to allocate array

From: Laurent Pinchart
Date: Sun Dec 11 2011 - 18:41:42 EST


Hi Thomas,

Thanks for the patch.

On Tuesday 29 November 2011 22:08:00 Thomas Meyer wrote:
> 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@xxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Should I take the patch in my tree, or do you plan to push several similar
patches directly in one go ?

> ---
>
> diff -u -p a/drivers/media/video/uvc/uvc_ctrl.c
> b/drivers/media/video/uvc/uvc_ctrl.c ---
> a/drivers/media/video/uvc/uvc_ctrl.c 2011-11-28 19:36:47.613437745 +0100
> +++ b/drivers/media/video/uvc/uvc_ctrl.c 2011-11-28 19:58:26.309317018
> +0100 @@ -1861,7 +1861,7 @@ int uvc_ctrl_init_device(struct uvc_devi
> if (ncontrols == 0)
> continue;
>
> - entity->controls = kzalloc(ncontrols * sizeof(*ctrl),
> + entity->controls = kcalloc(ncontrols, sizeof(*ctrl),
> GFP_KERNEL);
> if (entity->controls == NULL)
> return -ENOMEM;

--
Regards,

Laurent Pinchart
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