* [PATCH] tracing/syscalls: Use kcalloc instead of kzalloc to allocate array
@ 2011-11-29 21:08 Thomas Meyer
2012-02-17 13:52 ` [tip:perf/core] tracing/trivial: " tip-bot for Thomas Meyer
0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Thomas Meyer @ 2011-11-29 21:08 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: rostedt, fweisbec, mingo, linux-kernel
The advantage of kcalloc is, that will prevent integer overflows which could
result from the multiplication of number of elements and size and it is also
a bit nicer to read.
The semantic patch that makes this change is available
in https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/11/25/107
Signed-off-by: Thomas Meyer <thomas@m3y3r.de>
---
diff -u -p a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
--- a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c 2011-11-13 11:08:12.084207678 +0100
+++ b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c 2011-11-28 20:09:21.703638214 +0100
@@ -1131,7 +1131,7 @@ static struct ftrace_hash *alloc_ftrace_
return NULL;
size = 1 << size_bits;
- hash->buckets = kzalloc(sizeof(*hash->buckets) * size, GFP_KERNEL);
+ hash->buckets = kcalloc(size, sizeof(*hash->buckets), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!hash->buckets) {
kfree(hash);
diff -u -p a/kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c b/kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c 2011-11-13 11:08:12.107541380 +0100
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c 2011-11-28 20:09:19.846949470 +0100
@@ -679,7 +679,7 @@ find_event_field(struct ftrace_event_cal
static int __alloc_pred_stack(struct pred_stack *stack, int n_preds)
{
- stack->preds = kzalloc(sizeof(*stack->preds)*(n_preds + 1), GFP_KERNEL);
+ stack->preds = kcalloc(n_preds + 1, sizeof(*stack->preds), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!stack->preds)
return -ENOMEM;
stack->index = n_preds;
@@ -820,8 +820,7 @@ static int __alloc_preds(struct event_fi
if (filter->preds)
__free_preds(filter);
- filter->preds =
- kzalloc(sizeof(*filter->preds) * n_preds, GFP_KERNEL);
+ filter->preds = kcalloc(n_preds, sizeof(*filter->preds), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!filter->preds)
return -ENOMEM;
@@ -1480,7 +1479,7 @@ static int fold_pred(struct filter_pred
children = count_leafs(preds, &preds[root->left]);
children += count_leafs(preds, &preds[root->right]);
- root->ops = kzalloc(sizeof(*root->ops) * children, GFP_KERNEL);
+ root->ops = kcalloc(children, sizeof(*root->ops), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!root->ops)
return -ENOMEM;
diff -u -p a/kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c b/kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c 2011-11-13 11:08:12.124208310 +0100
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c 2011-11-28 20:09:23.100321500 +0100
@@ -468,8 +468,8 @@ int __init init_ftrace_syscalls(void)
unsigned long addr;
int i;
- syscalls_metadata = kzalloc(sizeof(*syscalls_metadata) *
- NR_syscalls, GFP_KERNEL);
+ syscalls_metadata = kcalloc(NR_syscalls, sizeof(*syscalls_metadata),
+ GFP_KERNEL);
if (!syscalls_metadata) {
WARN_ON(1);
return -ENOMEM;
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2011-11-29 21:08 [PATCH] tracing/syscalls: Use kcalloc instead of kzalloc to allocate array Thomas Meyer
@ 2012-02-17 13:52 ` tip-bot for Thomas Meyer
0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: tip-bot for Thomas Meyer @ 2012-02-17 13:52 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-tip-commits; +Cc: linux-kernel, thomas, hpa, mingo, rostedt, tglx
Commit-ID: 47b0edcb599ea6eb9ef16d3a08932a0e01485293
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/47b0edcb599ea6eb9ef16d3a08932a0e01485293
Author: Thomas Meyer <thomas@m3y3r.de>
AuthorDate: Tue, 29 Nov 2011 22:08:00 +0100
Committer: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
CommitDate: Mon, 13 Feb 2012 13:48:11 -0500
tracing/trivial: Use kcalloc instead of kzalloc to allocate array
The advantage of kcalloc is, that will prevent integer overflows which could
result from the multiplication of number of elements and size and it is also
a bit nicer to read.
The semantic patch that makes this change is available
in https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/11/25/107
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1322600880.1534.347.camel@localhost.localdomain
Signed-off-by: Thomas Meyer <thomas@m3y3r.de>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
---
kernel/trace/ftrace.c | 2 +-
kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c | 7 +++----
kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c | 4 ++--
3 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
index e2e0597..d1499e9 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
@@ -1129,7 +1129,7 @@ static struct ftrace_hash *alloc_ftrace_hash(int size_bits)
return NULL;
size = 1 << size_bits;
- hash->buckets = kzalloc(sizeof(*hash->buckets) * size, GFP_KERNEL);
+ hash->buckets = kcalloc(size, sizeof(*hash->buckets), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!hash->buckets) {
kfree(hash);
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c b/kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c
index 24aee71..76afaee 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c
@@ -685,7 +685,7 @@ find_event_field(struct ftrace_event_call *call, char *name)
static int __alloc_pred_stack(struct pred_stack *stack, int n_preds)
{
- stack->preds = kzalloc(sizeof(*stack->preds)*(n_preds + 1), GFP_KERNEL);
+ stack->preds = kcalloc(n_preds + 1, sizeof(*stack->preds), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!stack->preds)
return -ENOMEM;
stack->index = n_preds;
@@ -826,8 +826,7 @@ static int __alloc_preds(struct event_filter *filter, int n_preds)
if (filter->preds)
__free_preds(filter);
- filter->preds =
- kzalloc(sizeof(*filter->preds) * n_preds, GFP_KERNEL);
+ filter->preds = kcalloc(n_preds, sizeof(*filter->preds), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!filter->preds)
return -ENOMEM;
@@ -1486,7 +1485,7 @@ static int fold_pred(struct filter_pred *preds, struct filter_pred *root)
children = count_leafs(preds, &preds[root->left]);
children += count_leafs(preds, &preds[root->right]);
- root->ops = kzalloc(sizeof(*root->ops) * children, GFP_KERNEL);
+ root->ops = kcalloc(children, sizeof(*root->ops), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!root->ops)
return -ENOMEM;
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c b/kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c
index cb65454..4350015 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c
@@ -468,8 +468,8 @@ int __init init_ftrace_syscalls(void)
unsigned long addr;
int i;
- syscalls_metadata = kzalloc(sizeof(*syscalls_metadata) *
- NR_syscalls, GFP_KERNEL);
+ syscalls_metadata = kcalloc(NR_syscalls, sizeof(*syscalls_metadata),
+ GFP_KERNEL);
if (!syscalls_metadata) {
WARN_ON(1);
return -ENOMEM;
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