From: Markus Elfring <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2017 22:20:30 +0100

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 <[email protected]>
---
 drivers/virtio/virtio_pci_common.c | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/virtio/virtio_pci_common.c 
b/drivers/virtio/virtio_pci_common.c
index 559a2b706093..623a8cea1441 100644
--- a/drivers/virtio/virtio_pci_common.c
+++ b/drivers/virtio/virtio_pci_common.c
@@ -111,9 +111,9 @@ static int vp_request_msix_vectors(struct virtio_device 
*vdev, int nvectors,
        int err = -ENOMEM;
 
        vp_dev->msix_vectors = nvectors;
-
-       vp_dev->msix_names = kmalloc(nvectors * sizeof *vp_dev->msix_names,
-                                    GFP_KERNEL);
+       vp_dev->msix_names = kmalloc_array(nvectors,
+                                          sizeof(*vp_dev->msix_names),
+                                          GFP_KERNEL);
        if (!vp_dev->msix_names)
                goto error;
        vp_dev->msix_affinity_masks
-- 
2.11.0

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