Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] clk: ti: composite: Prefer kcalloc over open coded arithmetic | From | Stephen Boyd <> | Date | Fri, 20 May 2022 20:40:23 -0700 |
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Quoting Len Baker (2021-09-04 06:17:14) > As noted in the "Deprecated Interfaces, Language Features, Attributes, > and Conventions" documentation [1], size calculations (especially > multiplication) should not be performed in memory allocator (or similar) > function arguments due to the risk of them overflowing. This could lead > to values wrapping around and a smaller allocation being made than the > caller was expecting. Using those allocations could lead to linear > overflows of heap memory and other misbehaviors. > > So, use the purpose specific kcalloc() function instead of the argument > size * count in the kzalloc() function. > > [1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v5.14/process/deprecated.html#open-coded-arithmetic-in-allocator-arguments > > Signed-off-by: Len Baker <len.baker@gmx.com> > ---
Applied to clk-next
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