[PATCH] crypto: sun8i-ce - Use kcalloc() instead of kzalloc()
Jernej Škrabec
jernej.skrabec at gmail.com
Tue Jan 23 09:45:07 PST 2024
Dne nedelja, 21. januar 2024 ob 16:34:07 CET je Erick Archer napisal(a):
> 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 kcalloc() function instead of the argument
> size * count in the 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>
Acked-by: Jernej Skrabec <jernej.skrabec at gmail.com>
Best regards,
Jernej
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