Re: [PATCH] Staging rtlwifi efuse fix up a warning kzalloc
From: Joe Perches
Date: Sat Aug 26 2017 - 11:26:48 EST
On Sat, 2017-08-26 at 09:48 -0500, Larry Finger wrote:
> I will NACK every
> patch that tries to force code that I maintain to use kcalloc over kzalloc.
Your choice.
The concept behind the kzalloc with multiply vs kcalloc
is protection against multiplication overflow.
It's unlikely to solve any real problem with a
sizeof(foo) * small known number of entries.
It does have application when number of entries is
a user specified value.