Re: [PATCH v2] scsi: advansys: Prefer struct_size over open coded arithmetic

[Martin K. Petersen]

Len,

> 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 to 5.16/scsi-staging, thanks!

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Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering