[PATCH] i3c/master/mipi-i3c-hci: Prefer kcalloc over open coded arithmetic

Alexandre Belloni alexandre.belloni at bootlin.com
Mon Sep 13 10:39:44 PDT 2021


On Sun, 12 Sep 2021 17:51:35 +0200, Len Baker 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.
> 
> [...]

Applied, thanks!

[1/1] i3c/master/mipi-i3c-hci: Prefer kcalloc over open coded arithmetic
      commit: 41a0430dd5ca65afdecf10fb0b8b56966a1c5d04

Best regards,
-- 
Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni at bootlin.com>



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