[PATCH 1/1] Drivers: hv: use kmalloc_array() instead of kmalloc()

From: Gongwei Li

Date: Thu Nov 20 2025 - 22:11:12 EST


From: Gongwei Li <ligongwei@xxxxxxxxxx>

Replace kmalloc() with kmalloc_array() to prevent potential
overflow, as recommended in Documentation/process/deprecated.rst.

Signed-off-by: Gongwei Li <ligongwei@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/hv/hv_util.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/hv/hv_util.c b/drivers/hv/hv_util.c
index 36ee89c0358b..7e9c8e169c66 100644
--- a/drivers/hv/hv_util.c
+++ b/drivers/hv/hv_util.c
@@ -586,7 +586,7 @@ static int util_probe(struct hv_device *dev,
(struct hv_util_service *)dev_id->driver_data;
int ret;

- srv->recv_buffer = kmalloc(HV_HYP_PAGE_SIZE * 4, GFP_KERNEL);
+ srv->recv_buffer = kmalloc_array(4, HV_HYP_PAGE_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!srv->recv_buffer)
return -ENOMEM;
srv->channel = dev->channel;
--
2.25.1