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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>