Use kcalloc instead of kzalloc to check for overflow before multiplication. Done using the following semantic patch by coccinelle. http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/rules/kzalloc.cocci Signed-off-by: Srishti Sharma <srishtishar@xxxxxxxxx> --- Changes in v2: - eliminate parentheses around the first argument drivers/staging/ccree/ssi_sysfs.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/ccree/ssi_sysfs.c b/drivers/staging/ccree/ssi_sysfs.c index 0655658..f7e0c502 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/ccree/ssi_sysfs.c +++ b/drivers/staging/ccree/ssi_sysfs.c @@ -376,7 +376,7 @@ static int sys_init_dir(struct sys_dir *sys_dir, struct ssi_drvdata *drvdata, return -ENOMEM; /* allocate memory for directory's attributes list */ sys_dir->sys_dir_attr_list = - kzalloc(sizeof(struct attribute *) * (num_of_attrs + 1), + kcalloc(num_of_attrs + 1, sizeof(struct attribute *), GFP_KERNEL); if (!(sys_dir->sys_dir_attr_list)) { -- 2.7.4
