When allocating an array, it is a recommended coding practice to call g_new(FooType, n) instead of g_malloc(n * sizeof(FooType)) because it takes care to avoid overflow when calculating the size of the allocated block and it returns FooType *, which allows the compiler to perform type checking.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kurz <gr...@kaod.org> --- hw/ppc/spapr_pci.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/hw/ppc/spapr_pci.c b/hw/ppc/spapr_pci.c index c2271e6ed462..0537ce018f51 100644 --- a/hw/ppc/spapr_pci.c +++ b/hw/ppc/spapr_pci.c @@ -1883,7 +1883,7 @@ static int spapr_pci_pre_save(void *opaque) if (!sphb->msi_devs_num) { return 0; } - sphb->msi_devs = g_malloc(sphb->msi_devs_num * sizeof(spapr_pci_msi_mig)); + sphb->msi_devs = g_new(spapr_pci_msi_mig, sphb->msi_devs_num); g_hash_table_iter_init(&iter, sphb->msi); for (i = 0; g_hash_table_iter_next(&iter, &key, &value); ++i) {