Commit 1daef6d2 authored by Thomas Meyer's avatar Thomas Meyer Committed by Linus Torvalds

leds: Use kcalloc instead of kzalloc to allocate array

The advantage of kcalloc is that will prevent integer overflows which
could result from the multiplication of number of elements and size and it
is also a bit nicer to read.

The semantic patch that makes this change is available
in https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/11/25/107Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Meyer <thomas@m3y3r.de>
Cc: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 872b86be
......@@ -280,7 +280,7 @@ static int __devinit mc13783_led_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
return -EINVAL;
}
led = kzalloc(sizeof(*led) * pdata->num_leds, GFP_KERNEL);
led = kcalloc(pdata->num_leds, sizeof(*led), GFP_KERNEL);
if (led == NULL) {
dev_err(&pdev->dev, "failed to alloc memory\n");
return -ENOMEM;
......
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