Re: [PATCH v2] staging: rtl8192u: ieee80211: replace kmalloc/memset with kzalloc

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On Fri, Oct 23, 2020 at 11:47:05AM -0700, Elena Afanasova wrote:
> Replace kmalloc + memset 0 by a call to kzalloc which zeroes memory too.
> Found with Coccinelle.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Elena Afanasova <eafanasova@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Changes in v2:
> 	- correct the subject line
> 	- correct the commit message
> 
>  drivers/staging/rtl8192u/ieee80211/ieee80211_tx.c | 5 +----
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8192u/ieee80211/ieee80211_tx.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8192u/ieee80211/ieee80211_tx.c
> index 63a561ab4a76..fb8483c499b3 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8192u/ieee80211/ieee80211_tx.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8192u/ieee80211/ieee80211_tx.c
> @@ -227,13 +227,10 @@ static struct ieee80211_txb *ieee80211_alloc_txb(int nr_frags, int txb_size,
>  {
>  	struct ieee80211_txb *txb;
>  	int i;
> -	txb = kmalloc(
> -		sizeof(struct ieee80211_txb) + (sizeof(u8 *) * nr_frags),
> -		gfp_mask);
> +	txb = kzalloc(sizeof(*txb) + (sizeof(u8 *) * nr_frags), gfp_mask);

Can you please use array_size() for this type of math to ensure that the
multiplication is safe?

thanks,

greg k-h
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