Re: [PATCH] pinctrl: pinctrl-zynqmp: Use devm_kcalloc() instead of devm_kzalloc()

[Linus Walleij]

On Fri, Jan 19, 2024 at 7:19 PM Erick Archer <erick.archer@xxxxxxx> 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.
>
> 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@xxxxxxx>

Patch applied!

Yours,
Linus Walleij