Re: [PATCH] thermal/debugfs: replace kzalloc() with kcalloc() in thermal_debug_tz_add()

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

On Sat, Feb 22, 2025 at 9:02 PM Ethan Carter Edwards
<ethan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> We are trying to get rid of all multiplications from allocation
> functions to prevent integer overflows[1]. Here the multiplication is
> obviously safe, but using kcalloc() is more appropriate and improves
> readability. This patch has no effect on runtime behavior.
>
> Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/162 [1]
> Link: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/next/process/deprecated.html#open-coded-arithmetic-in-allocator-arguments
>
> Signed-off-by: Ethan Carter Edwards <ethan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/thermal/thermal_debugfs.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/thermal/thermal_debugfs.c b/drivers/thermal/thermal_debugfs.c
> index c800504c3cfe0ea3b4a51286f348dd5802e1898f..60ee6c366998e26447a0b985112f578ba8757f17 100644
> --- a/drivers/thermal/thermal_debugfs.c
> +++ b/drivers/thermal/thermal_debugfs.c
> @@ -876,7 +876,7 @@ void thermal_debug_tz_add(struct thermal_zone_device *tz)
>
>         tz_dbg->tz = tz;
>
> -       tz_dbg->trips_crossed = kzalloc(sizeof(int) * tz->num_trips, GFP_KERNEL);
> +       tz_dbg->trips_crossed = kcalloc(tz->num_trips, sizeof(int), GFP_KERNEL);
>         if (!tz_dbg->trips_crossed) {
>                 thermal_debugfs_remove_id(thermal_dbg);
>                 return;
>
> ---

Applied as 6.15 material with some edits in the changelog, thanks!