linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 09/30] mtd: Don't cast kmalloc() return value in drivers/mtd/maps/pmcmsp-flash.c

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Date:	Sat, 25 Aug 2007 19:59:01 -0400 (EDT)
From:	"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...dspring.com>
To:	Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@...il.com>
cc:	Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@...glemail.com>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
	linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/30] mtd: Don't cast kmalloc() return value in
 drivers/mtd/maps/pmcmsp-flash.c

On Sun, 26 Aug 2007, Jesper Juhl wrote:

> On 24/08/07, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@...dspring.com> wrote:

> > actually, i would think kcalloc would be more appropriate here, no?
> >
>
> Why?
>
> msp_parts[i] = kzalloc(pcnt * sizeof(struct mtd_partition), GFP_KERNEL);
>
> seems better to me than
>
> msp_parts[i] = kcalloc(1, pcnt * sizeof(struct mtd_partition), GFP_KERNEL);

i was thinking more along the lines of

msp_parts[i] = kcalloc(pcnt, sizeof(struct mtd_partition), GFP_KERNEL);

which was kind of the obvious implication, no?  unless there's a
reason kcalloc() wouldn't work here, this is pretty much what
kcalloc() was designed for.

rday

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