Preferred style is to use kcalloc and kmalloc_array. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger --- a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c 2016-07-26 09:28:21.401557546 -0700 +++ b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c 2016-07-26 09:36:05.107695337 -0700 @@ -1551,13 +1551,13 @@ static int virtnet_find_vqs(struct virtn virtio_has_feature(vi->vdev, VIRTIO_NET_F_CTRL_VQ); /* Allocate space for find_vqs parameters */ - vqs = kzalloc(total_vqs * sizeof(*vqs), GFP_KERNEL); + vqs = kcalloc(total_vqs, sizeof(*vqs), GFP_KERNEL); if (!vqs) goto err_vq; - callbacks = kmalloc(total_vqs * sizeof(*callbacks), GFP_KERNEL); + callbacks = kmalloc_array(total_vqs, sizeof(*callbacks), GFP_KERNEL); if (!callbacks) goto err_callback; - names = kmalloc(total_vqs * sizeof(*names), GFP_KERNEL); + names = kmalloc_array(total_vqs, sizeof(*names), GFP_KERNEL); if (!names) goto err_names; @@ -1613,10 +1613,10 @@ static int virtnet_alloc_queues(struct v { int i; - vi->sq = kzalloc(sizeof(*vi->sq) * vi->max_queue_pairs, GFP_KERNEL); + vi->sq = kcalloc(vi->max_queue_pairs, sizeof(*vi->sq), GFP_KERNEL); if (!vi->sq) goto err_sq; - vi->rq = kzalloc(sizeof(*vi->rq) * vi->max_queue_pairs, GFP_KERNEL); + vi->rq = kcalloc(vi->max_queue_pairs, sizeof(*vi->rq), GFP_KERNEL); if (!vi->rq) goto err_rq;