use calloc() to avoid malloc(n * m) overflows; checked by djm canacar jsg

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/src/lib/libc/stdlib/hcreate.c b/src/lib/libc/stdlib/hcreate.c
index f8df1bcd7c..094f32c173 100644
--- a/src/lib/libc/stdlib/hcreate.c
+++ b/src/lib/libc/stdlib/hcreate.c
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/*      $OpenBSD: hcreate.c,v 1.3 2005/10/10 17:37:44 espie Exp $       */
+/*      $OpenBSD: hcreate.c,v 1.4 2007/09/02 15:19:17 deraadt Exp $     */
 /*      $NetBSD: hcreate.c,v 1.5 2004/04/23 02:48:12 simonb Exp $       */
 
 /*
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ hcreate(size_t nel)
         
         /* Allocate the table. */
         htablesize = nel;
-        htable = malloc(htablesize * sizeof htable[0]);
+        htable = calloc(htablesize, sizeof htable[0]);
         if (htable == NULL) {
                 errno = ENOMEM;
                 return 0;