[PATCH v3 7/7] staging: dgnc: tty.c: replaces kzalloc with kcalloc for arrays

Lidza Louina lidza.louina at gmail.com
Mon Sep 9 19:01:28 UTC 2013


This patch replaces kzalloc with kcalloc when using
arrays. kcalloc is better suited for arrays because
it has overflow protection.

Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter at oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Lidza Louina <lidza.louina at gmail.com>
---
 drivers/staging/dgnc/dgnc_tty.c | 8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/dgnc/dgnc_tty.c b/drivers/staging/dgnc/dgnc_tty.c
index 07b79be..18705f9 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/dgnc/dgnc_tty.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/dgnc/dgnc_tty.c
@@ -222,12 +222,12 @@ int dgnc_tty_register(struct dgnc_board *brd)
 	 * The kernel wants space to store pointers to
 	 * tty_struct's and termios's.
 	 */
-	brd->SerialDriver.ttys = kzalloc(brd->maxports * sizeof(*brd->SerialDriver.ttys), GFP_KERNEL);
+	brd->SerialDriver.ttys = kcalloc(brd->SerialDriver.num, brd->maxports * sizeof(*brd->SerialDriver.ttys), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!brd->SerialDriver.ttys)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
 	kref_init(&brd->SerialDriver.kref);
-	brd->SerialDriver.termios = kzalloc(brd->maxports * sizeof(*brd->SerialDriver.termios), GFP_KERNEL);
+	brd->SerialDriver.termios = kcalloc(brd->SerialDriver.num, brd->maxports * sizeof(*brd->SerialDriver.termios), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!brd->SerialDriver.termios)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
@@ -271,11 +271,11 @@ int dgnc_tty_register(struct dgnc_board *brd)
 	 * tty_struct's and termios's.  Must be seperate from
 	 * the Serial Driver so we don't get confused
 	 */
-	brd->PrintDriver.ttys = kzalloc(brd->maxports * sizeof(*brd->PrintDriver.ttys), GFP_KERNEL);
+	brd->PrintDriver.ttys = kcalloc(brd->PrintDriver.num, brd->maxports * sizeof(*brd->PrintDriver.ttys), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!brd->PrintDriver.ttys)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 	kref_init(&brd->PrintDriver.kref);
-	brd->PrintDriver.termios = kzalloc(brd->maxports * sizeof(*brd->PrintDriver.termios), GFP_KERNEL);
+	brd->PrintDriver.termios = kcalloc(brd->PrintDriver.num, brd->maxports * sizeof(*brd->PrintDriver.termios), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!brd->PrintDriver.termios)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
-- 
1.8.1.2



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