[PATCH] powerpc: Use kmalloc_array() in grow()

SF Markus Elfring elfring at users.sourceforge.net
Mon Aug 29 16:00:26 AEST 2016


From: Markus Elfring <elfring at users.sourceforge.net>
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2016 07:50:33 +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.

* Replace the specification of a data type by a pointer dereference
  to make the corresponding size determination a bit safer according to
  the Linux coding style convention.

Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring at users.sourceforge.net>
---
 arch/powerpc/lib/rheap.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/lib/rheap.c b/arch/powerpc/lib/rheap.c
index 94058c2..1630764 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/lib/rheap.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/lib/rheap.c
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ static int grow(rh_info_t * info, int max_blocks)
 
 	new_blocks = max_blocks - info->max_blocks;
 
-	block = kmalloc(sizeof(rh_block_t) * max_blocks, GFP_ATOMIC);
+	block = kmalloc_array(max_blocks, sizeof(*block), GFP_ATOMIC);
 	if (block == NULL)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
-- 
2.9.3



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