Re: [PATCH 7/8] mmc-core: Use kcalloc() in mmc_test_alloc_mem()

From: Shawn Lin
Date: Tue Jan 10 2017 - 03:29:36 EST


On 2017/1/9 5:50, SF Markus Elfring wrote:
From: Markus Elfring <elfring@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2017 21:43:12 +0100

* The script "checkpatch.pl" pointed information out like the following.

WARNING: Prefer kcalloc over kzalloc with multiply

Thus fix the affected source code place.


Reviewed-by: Shawn Lin <shawn.lin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

* 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/mmc/core/mmc_test.c | 3 +--
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/mmc/core/mmc_test.c b/drivers/mmc/core/mmc_test.c
index 294d3c675734..cb4750de2720 100644
--- a/drivers/mmc/core/mmc_test.c
+++ b/drivers/mmc/core/mmc_test.c
@@ -360,8 +360,7 @@ static struct mmc_test_mem *mmc_test_alloc_mem(unsigned long min_sz,
if (!mem)
return NULL;

- mem->arr = kzalloc(sizeof(struct mmc_test_pages) * max_segs,
- GFP_KERNEL);
+ mem->arr = kcalloc(max_segs, sizeof(*mem->arr), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!mem->arr)
goto out_free;




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Best Regards
Shawn Lin