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Message-ID: <1402943866.3182.4.camel@joe-AO725>
Date:	Mon, 16 Jun 2014 11:37:46 -0700
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	Fabian Frederick <fabf@...net.be>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Phillip Lougher <phillip@...ashfs.org.uk>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] fs/squashfs/file_direct.c: replace count*size
 kmalloc by kcalloc

On Mon, 2014-06-16 at 20:12 +0200, Fabian Frederick wrote:
> kcalloc manages count*sizeof overflow.

so does kmalloc_array

> diff --git a/fs/squashfs/file_direct.c b/fs/squashfs/file_direct.c
[]
> -	page = kmalloc(sizeof(void *) * pages, GFP_KERNEL);
> +	page = kcalloc(pages, sizeof(void *), GFP_KERNEL);


kmalloc(a * sizeof(b), GFP) -> kmalloc_array(a, sizeof(b), GFP)
kzalloc(a * sizeof(b), GFP) -> kcalloc(a, sizeof(b), GFP)


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