Quoting Erick Archer (2024-01-21 06:29:46) > 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]> > ---
Applied to clk-next
