Re: [PATCH] i3c/master/mipi-i3c-hci: Prefer kcalloc over open coded arithmetic

From: Alexandre Belloni
Date: Mon Sep 13 2021 - 13:40:00 EST


On Sun, 12 Sep 2021 17:51:35 +0200, Len Baker 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.
>
> [...]

Applied, thanks!

[1/1] i3c/master/mipi-i3c-hci: Prefer kcalloc over open coded arithmetic
commit: 41a0430dd5ca65afdecf10fb0b8b56966a1c5d04

Best regards,
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Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@xxxxxxxxxxx>