Re: [PATCH] efi: efibc: change kmalloc(size * count, ...) to kmalloc_array()

From: Ard Biesheuvel
Date: Mon Mar 10 2025 - 13:26:01 EST


On Sun, 9 Mar 2025 at 02:27, Ethan Carter Edwards
<ethan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Open coded arithmetic in allocator arguments is discouraged. Helper
> functions like kcalloc or, in this case, kmalloc_array are preferred.
>
> Link: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#open-coded-arithmetic-in-allocator-arguments
>
> Signed-off-by: Ethan Carter Edwards <ethan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/firmware/efi/efibc.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/efibc.c b/drivers/firmware/efi/efibc.c
> index 4f9fb086eab7b0e22252d22e59e5aae55865322d..0a7c764dcc614fbba3cbcd94183dc07939837a03 100644
> --- a/drivers/firmware/efi/efibc.c
> +++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/efibc.c
> @@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ static int efibc_reboot_notifier_call(struct notifier_block *notifier,
> if (ret || !data)
> return NOTIFY_DONE;
>
> - wdata = kmalloc(MAX_DATA_LEN * sizeof(efi_char16_t), GFP_KERNEL);
> + wdata = kmalloc_array(MAX_DATA_LEN, sizeof(efi_char16_t), GFP_KERNEL);
> if (!wdata)
> return NOTIFY_DONE;
>
>
> ---
> base-commit: 0a2f889128969dab41861b6e40111aa03dc57014
> change-id: 20250308-efibc-kmalloc_array-ba78097a0708
>

Queued up in efi/next, thanks.