On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 6:05 PM, Dan Carpenter <dan.carpen...@oracle.com> wrote:
> This one is not right.
>
> On Mon, Sep 09, 2013 at 03:01:28PM -0400, Lidza Louina wrote:
>> This patch replaces kzalloc with kcalloc when using
>> arrays. kcalloc is better suited for arrays because
>> it has overflow protection.
>>
>> Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpen...@oracle.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Lidza Louina <lidza.lou...@gmail.com>
>> ---
>>  drivers/staging/dgnc/dgnc_tty.c | 8 ++++----
>>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/staging/dgnc/dgnc_tty.c 
>> b/drivers/staging/dgnc/dgnc_tty.c
>> index 07b79be..18705f9 100644
>> --- a/drivers/staging/dgnc/dgnc_tty.c
>> +++ b/drivers/staging/dgnc/dgnc_tty.c
>> @@ -222,12 +222,12 @@ int dgnc_tty_register(struct dgnc_board *brd)
>>        * The kernel wants space to store pointers to
>>        * tty_struct's and termios's.
>>        */
>> -     brd->SerialDriver.ttys = kzalloc(brd->maxports * 
>> sizeof(*brd->SerialDriver.ttys), GFP_KERNEL);
>> +     brd->SerialDriver.ttys = kcalloc(brd->SerialDriver.num, brd->maxports 
>> * sizeof(*brd->SerialDriver.ttys), GFP_KERNEL);
>
>
> This should be:
>
>         brd->SerialDriver.ttys = kcalloc(brd->maxports, 
> sizeof(*brd->SerialDriver.ttys), GFP_KERNEL);
>
> Btw, are you using vim with cscope set up?
>
> make cscope
> vim -t kcalloc
> Move to the kmalloc_array() call and hit CTRL-]

I had never heard of cscope. I wish I would've known
about it before, it would've saved me a ton of grepping
thru source code... >_< Thanks for the tip.
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