Hi, On 03/22/2015 11:59 PM, Hannes Reinecke wrote: > On 03/22/2015 05:31 PM, Michael Opdenacker wrote: >> This replaces kmalloc + memset by a call to kzalloc >> (or kcalloc when appropriate, which zeroes memory too) >> >> This also fixes one checkpatch.pl issue in the process. >> >> This improvement was suggested by "make coccicheck" >> >> Signed-off-by: Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenac...@free-electrons.com> > Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <h...@suse.de>
I'm sending a version that reverts the use of kcalloc() instead of kzalloc(). For reasons I don't understand, I didn't see the end of Robert Elliott's comment that the use of kcalloc() could prevent the compiler from detecting an overflow. Michael. -- Michael Opdenacker, CEO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com +33 484 258 098 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
