On Sun, Jan 21, 2024 at 03:29:46PM +0100, Erick Archer wrote:
> 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 devm_kcalloc() function instead of the
> argument size * count in the devm_kzalloc() function.
> 
> Link: 
> https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/next/process/deprecated.html#open-coded-arithmetic-in-allocator-arguments
>  [1]
> Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/162
> Signed-off-by: Erick Archer <[email protected]>
> ---
>  drivers/clk/hisilicon/clk-hi3559a.c | 3 +--
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/clk/hisilicon/clk-hi3559a.c 
> b/drivers/clk/hisilicon/clk-hi3559a.c
> index ff4ca0edce06..da476f940326 100644
> --- a/drivers/clk/hisilicon/clk-hi3559a.c
> +++ b/drivers/clk/hisilicon/clk-hi3559a.c
> @@ -461,8 +461,7 @@ static void hisi_clk_register_pll(struct 
> hi3559av100_pll_clock *clks,
>       struct clk_init_data init;
>       int i;
> 
> -     p_clk = devm_kzalloc(dev, sizeof(*p_clk) * nums, GFP_KERNEL);
> -
> +     p_clk = devm_kcalloc(dev, nums, sizeof(*p_clk), GFP_KERNEL);
>       if (!p_clk)
>               return;

Looks good,

Reviewed-by: Uwe Kleine-König <[email protected]>

My first impulse was to ask why hisi_clk_register_pll doesn't return an
error if the allocation fails, but I guess that happens so early that no
sensible error handling is possible?

Best regards
Uwe

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