From: Markus Elfring <elfr...@users.sourceforge.net>
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2016 17:45:51 +0200

A multiplication for the size determination of a memory allocation
indicated that an array data structure should be processed.
Thus reuse the corresponding function "kmalloc_array".

This issue was detected by using the Coccinelle software.

Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfr...@users.sourceforge.net>
---
 arch/arm/plat-pxa/dma.c | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/plat-pxa/dma.c b/arch/arm/plat-pxa/dma.c
index de2b061..50aa995 100644
--- a/arch/arm/plat-pxa/dma.c
+++ b/arch/arm/plat-pxa/dma.c
@@ -237,8 +237,9 @@ static void pxa_dma_init_debugfs(void)
        if (!dbgfs_state)
                goto err_state;
 
-       dbgfs_chan = kmalloc(sizeof(*dbgfs_state) * num_dma_channels,
-                            GFP_KERNEL);
+       dbgfs_chan = kmalloc_array(num_dma_channels,
+                                  sizeof(*dbgfs_state),
+                                  GFP_KERNEL);
        if (!dbgfs_chan)
                goto err_alloc;
 
-- 
2.9.3

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