From: Markus Elfring <elfr...@users.sourceforge.net>
Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2016 21:30:10 +0200

A multiplication for the size determination of a memory allocation
indicated that an array data structure should be processed.
Thus use the corresponding function "kmalloc_array".

This issue was detected by using the Coccinelle software.

Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfr...@users.sourceforge.net>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/hpet.c | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/hpet.c b/arch/x86/kernel/hpet.c
index c6dfd80..3c2030d 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/hpet.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/hpet.c
@@ -876,8 +876,9 @@ int __init hpet_enable(void)
 #endif
 
        cfg = hpet_readl(HPET_CFG);
-       hpet_boot_cfg = kmalloc((last + 2) * sizeof(*hpet_boot_cfg),
-                               GFP_KERNEL);
+       hpet_boot_cfg = kmalloc_array(last + 2,
+                                     sizeof(*hpet_boot_cfg),
+                                     GFP_KERNEL);
        if (hpet_boot_cfg)
                *hpet_boot_cfg = cfg;
        else
-- 
2.9.3

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