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authorErick Archer <erick.archer@gmx.com>2024-01-21 15:29:46 +0100
committerStephen Boyd <sboyd@kernel.org>2024-02-21 20:27:19 -0800
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clk: hisilicon: Use devm_kcalloc() instead of devm_kzalloc()
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 <erick.archer@gmx.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240121142946.2796-1-erick.archer@gmx.com Reviewed-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@kernel.org>
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