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> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>