linux-kernel - [PATCH 5/5] block-cciss: Replace three kzalloc() calls by kcalloc()

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Thu, 18 Aug 2016 12:03:28 +0200
From:	SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
To:	esc.storagedev@...rosemi.com, iss_storagedev@...com,
	linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, Don Brace <don.brace@...rosemi.com>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
	Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>
Subject: [PATCH 5/5] block-cciss: Replace three kzalloc() calls by kcalloc()

From: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2016 11:26:18 +0200

* The script "checkpatch.pl" can point information out like the following.

  WARNING: Prefer kcalloc over kzalloc with multiply

  Thus fix the affected source code places.

* Replace the specification of data structures by pointer dereferences
  to make the corresponding size determination a bit safer according to
  the Linux coding style convention.

Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
---
 drivers/block/cciss.c | 9 +++++----
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/block/cciss.c b/drivers/block/cciss.c
index b08bfb7..3502a3a 100644
--- a/drivers/block/cciss.c
+++ b/drivers/block/cciss.c
@@ -1604,12 +1604,12 @@ static int cciss_bigpassthru(ctlr_info_t *h, void __user *argp)
 		status = -EINVAL;
 		goto free_ioc;
 	}
-	buff_size = kmalloc(MAXSGENTRIES * sizeof(int), GFP_KERNEL);
+	buff_size = kcalloc(MAXSGENTRIES, sizeof(*buff_size), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!buff_size) {
 		status = -ENOMEM;
 		goto free_ioc;
 	}
-	buff = kzalloc(MAXSGENTRIES * sizeof(char *), GFP_KERNEL);
+	buff = kcalloc(MAXSGENTRIES, sizeof(*buff), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!buff) {
 		status = -ENOMEM;
 		goto free_size;
@@ -4838,8 +4838,9 @@ static int cciss_allocate_scatterlists(ctlr_info_t *h)
 	int i;
 
 	/* zero it, so that on free we need not know how many were alloc'ed */
-	h->scatter_list = kzalloc(h->max_commands *
-				sizeof(struct scatterlist *), GFP_KERNEL);
+	h->scatter_list = kcalloc(h->max_commands,
+				  sizeof(*h->scatter_list),
+				  GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!h->scatter_list)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
-- 
2.9.3