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

Michal Simek michal.simek at amd.com
Sun Jan 21 22:55:43 PST 2024



On 1/19/24 19:19, Erick Archer 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 at gmx.com>
> ---
>   drivers/pinctrl/pinctrl-zynqmp.c | 8 ++++----
>   1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/pinctrl/pinctrl-zynqmp.c b/drivers/pinctrl/pinctrl-zynqmp.c
> index f2be341f73e1..5c46b7d7ebcb 100644
> --- a/drivers/pinctrl/pinctrl-zynqmp.c
> +++ b/drivers/pinctrl/pinctrl-zynqmp.c
> @@ -562,7 +562,7 @@ static int zynqmp_pinctrl_prepare_func_groups(struct device *dev, u32 fid,
>   	const char **fgroups;
>   	int ret, index, i;
> 
> -	fgroups = devm_kzalloc(dev, sizeof(*fgroups) * func->ngroups, GFP_KERNEL);
> +	fgroups = devm_kcalloc(dev, func->ngroups, sizeof(*fgroups), GFP_KERNEL);
>   	if (!fgroups)
>   		return -ENOMEM;
> 
> @@ -754,7 +754,7 @@ static int zynqmp_pinctrl_prepare_function_info(struct device *dev,
>   	if (ret)
>   		return ret;
> 
> -	funcs = devm_kzalloc(dev, sizeof(*funcs) * pctrl->nfuncs, GFP_KERNEL);
> +	funcs = devm_kcalloc(dev, pctrl->nfuncs, sizeof(*funcs), GFP_KERNEL);
>   	if (!funcs)
>   		return -ENOMEM;
> 
> @@ -768,7 +768,7 @@ static int zynqmp_pinctrl_prepare_function_info(struct device *dev,
>   		pctrl->ngroups += funcs[i].ngroups;
>   	}
> 
> -	groups = devm_kzalloc(dev, sizeof(*groups) * pctrl->ngroups, GFP_KERNEL);
> +	groups = devm_kcalloc(dev, pctrl->ngroups, sizeof(*groups), GFP_KERNEL);
>   	if (!groups)
>   		return -ENOMEM;
> 
> @@ -830,7 +830,7 @@ static int zynqmp_pinctrl_prepare_pin_desc(struct device *dev,
>   	if (ret)
>   		return ret;
> 
> -	pins = devm_kzalloc(dev, sizeof(*pins) * *npins, GFP_KERNEL);
> +	pins = devm_kcalloc(dev, *npins, sizeof(*pins), GFP_KERNEL);
>   	if (!pins)
>   		return -ENOMEM;
> 
> --
> 2.25.1
> 

Acked-by: Michal Simek <michal.simek at amd.com>

Thanks,
Michal



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