We are trying to get rid of all multiplications from allocation functions to prevent integer overflows[1]. Here the multiplication is obviously safe, but using kcalloc() is more appropriate and improves readability. This patch has no effect on runtime behavior. Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/162 [1] Link: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/next/process/deprecated.html#open-coded-arithmetic-in-allocator-arguments [2] Signed-off-by: Lenko Donchev <lenko.donchev@xxxxxxxxx> --- Changes in v2: - Use sizeof on actual pointer. --- fs/ntfs3/frecord.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/ntfs3/frecord.c b/fs/ntfs3/frecord.c index d435446537ca..725aa84dbd22 100644 --- a/fs/ntfs3/frecord.c +++ b/fs/ntfs3/frecord.c @@ -2636,7 +2636,7 @@ int ni_read_frame(struct ntfs_inode *ni, u64 frame_vbo, struct page **pages, goto out1; } - pages_disk = kzalloc(npages_disk, sizeof(struct page *), GFP_NOFS); + pages_disk = kcalloc(npages_disk, sizeof(*pages_disk), GFP_NOFS); if (!pages_disk) { err = -ENOMEM; goto out2; -- 2.43.0
