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Re: [PATCH (for some future time)] drivers/net: Convert unbounded kzalloc calls to kcalloc

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On Wed, 2010-08-11 at 19:02 +0200, ext Joe Perches wrote:
> These changes may be slightly safer in some instances.
> 
> There are other kzalloc calls with a multiply, but those
> calls are typically "small fixed #" * sizeof(some pointer)"
> and those are not converted.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---

[...]

>  drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271_scan.c |    2 +-

[...]

> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271_scan.c b/drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271_scan.c
> index fec43ee..30dc100 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271_scan.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271_scan.c
> @@ -248,7 +248,7 @@ int wl1271_scan(struct wl1271 *wl, const u8 *ssid, size_t ssid_len,
> 
>         wl->scan.req = req;
> 
> -       wl->scan.scanned_ch = kzalloc(req->n_channels *
> +       wl->scan.scanned_ch = kcalloc(req->n_channels,
>                                       sizeof(*wl->scan.scanned_ch),
>                                       GFP_KERNEL);
>         wl1271_scan_stm(wl);

For the wl1271 part:

Acked-by: Luciano Coelho <luciano.coelho@xxxxxxxxx>

-- 
Cheers,
Luca.

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