[PATCH 2/3] staging: rtlwifi: use kcalloc instead of multiply

Larry Finger Larry.Finger at lwfinger.net
Tue Sep 5 14:46:34 UTC 2017


On 09/05/2017 01:53 AM, Tobin C. Harding wrote:
> checkpatch emits multiple warnings of type
> 
> WARNING:ALLOC_WITH_MULTIPLY: Prefer kcalloc over kzalloc with multiply
> 
> Replace two calls to kzalloc() with calls to kcalloc().

I have previously discussed this kind of change. This recommendation by 
checkpatch.pl is just plain stupid!! NACK.

Larry

> ---
>   drivers/staging/rtlwifi/efuse.c | 5 ++---
>   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtlwifi/efuse.c b/drivers/staging/rtlwifi/efuse.c
> index 6d5e657..d74c80d 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/rtlwifi/efuse.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/rtlwifi/efuse.c
> @@ -252,12 +252,11 @@ void read_efuse(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, u16 _offset, u16 _size_byte, u8 *pbuf)
>   			    sizeof(u8), GFP_ATOMIC);
>   	if (!efuse_tbl)
>   		return;
> -	efuse_word = kzalloc(EFUSE_MAX_WORD_UNIT * sizeof(u16 *), GFP_ATOMIC);
> +	efuse_word = kcalloc(EFUSE_MAX_WORD_UNIT, sizeof(u16 *), GFP_ATOMIC);
>   	if (!efuse_word)
>   		goto out;
>   	for (i = 0; i < EFUSE_MAX_WORD_UNIT; i++) {
> -		efuse_word[i] = kzalloc(efuse_max_section * sizeof(u16),
> -					GFP_ATOMIC);
> +		efuse_word[i] = kcalloc(efuse_max_section, sizeof(u16), GFP_ATOMIC);
>   		if (!efuse_word[i])
>   			goto done;
>   	}
> 



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