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 -- Pengutronix e.K. | Uwe Kleine-König | Industrial Linux Solutions | https://www.pengutronix.de/ |
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