Re: [PATCH] usb: use kcalloc instead of kzalloc

From: Alan Stern
Date: Tue Aug 19 2014 - 10:41:49 EST


On Tue, 19 Aug 2014, Arjun Sreedharan wrote:

> kcalloc has protection from integer overflows
> which could arise from the multiplication of
> number of elements and size.
>
> Signed-off-by: Arjun Sreedharan <arjun024@xxxxxxxxx>

As Clemens pointed out, integer overflows cannot occur here. This
patch is not needed.

Alan Stern

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