linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/4] pcmcia: pd6729: Use kcalloc() in pd6729_pci

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Date:   Mon, 15 May 2017 14:26:39 +0200
From:   SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
To:     linux-pcmcia@...ts.infradead.org
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/4] pcmcia: pd6729: Use kcalloc() in pd6729_pci_probe()

From: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
Date: Mon, 15 May 2017 11:41:00 +0200

* A multiplication for the size determination of a memory allocation
  indicated that an array data structure should be processed.
  Thus reuse the corresponding function "kcalloc".

  This issue was detected by using the Coccinelle software.

* Replace the specification of a data structure by a pointer dereference
  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/pcmcia/pd6729.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/pcmcia/pd6729.c b/drivers/pcmcia/pd6729.c
index 0f70b4d58f9e..289a5e74e852 100644
--- a/drivers/pcmcia/pd6729.c
+++ b/drivers/pcmcia/pd6729.c
@@ -628,6 +628,5 @@ static int pd6729_pci_probe(struct pci_dev *dev,
 	char configbyte;
 	struct pd6729_socket *socket;
 
-	socket = kzalloc(sizeof(struct pd6729_socket) * MAX_SOCKETS,
-			 GFP_KERNEL);
+	socket = kcalloc(MAX_SOCKETS, sizeof(*socket), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!socket) {
-- 
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