linux-kernel - [PATCH 4/5] GPU-DRM: Replace a kzalloc() call by kcalloc() in drm_legacy_addbufs

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Message-ID: <b340d1ca-f114-a523-e6d1-afe7fd6c3826@users.sourceforge.net>
Date:   Mon, 19 Sep 2016 17:56:49 +0200
From:   SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
To:     dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org,
        Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@...ll.ch>,
        David Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
        Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>
Subject: [PATCH 4/5] GPU-DRM: Replace a kzalloc() call by kcalloc() in
 drm_legacy_addbufs_sg()

From: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2016 17:30:31 +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 place.

Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_bufs.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_bufs.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_bufs.c
index 36dd685..adb1dd7 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_bufs.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_bufs.c
@@ -1117,8 +1117,7 @@ static int drm_legacy_addbufs_sg(struct drm_device *dev,
 		return -EINVAL;
 	}
 
-	entry->buflist = kzalloc(count * sizeof(*entry->buflist),
-				GFP_KERNEL);
+	entry->buflist = kcalloc(count, sizeof(*entry->buflist), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!entry->buflist) {
 		mutex_unlock(&dev->struct_mutex);
 		atomic_dec(&dev->buf_alloc);
-- 
2.10.0