From: Markus Elfring <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2017 18:18:41 +0100

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

This issue was detected by using the Coccinelle software.

Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <[email protected]>
---
 drivers/hid/hid-core.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/hid/hid-core.c b/drivers/hid/hid-core.c
index 538ff697a4cf..9b0a97bbde96 100644
--- a/drivers/hid/hid-core.c
+++ b/drivers/hid/hid-core.c
@@ -1272,7 +1272,7 @@ static void hid_input_field(struct hid_device *hid, 
struct hid_field *field,
        __s32 max = field->logical_maximum;
        __s32 *value;
 
-       value = kmalloc(sizeof(__s32) * count, GFP_ATOMIC);
+       value = kmalloc_array(count, sizeof(__s32), GFP_ATOMIC);
        if (!value)
                return;
 
-- 
2.11.1

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