Re: [PATCH] firmware: ti_sci: replace kcalloc with kzalloc for buffer pointer allocation

From: Nishanth Menon

Date: Mon Sep 28 2026 - 13:31:52 EST


Hi Siddharth Karanam,

On Fri, 18 Sep 2026 17:38:39 +0530, Siddharth Karanam wrote:
> Previously, the buffer pointer was being allocated via devm_kcalloc that
> would check for a mul overflow before allocating n * size bytes
> (size being desc->max_msg_size), but since n is 1 here, we can instead
> use devm_kzalloc that allocates the size directly.

I have applied the following to branch ti-drivers-soc-next on [1].
Thank you!

[1/1] firmware: ti_sci: replace kcalloc with kzalloc for buffer pointer allocation
commit: 6ace5611ac85887a593b7eae2b7edec8dfeb2ffa

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[1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ti/linux.git
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