We are trying to get rid of all multiplications from allocation functions to prevent integer overflows. Here the multiplication is obviously safe, but using kcalloc() is more appropriate and improves readability. This patch has no effect on runtime behavior. Link: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/next/process/deprecated.html#open-coded-arithmetic-in-allocator-arguments Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/162 Signed-off-by: Lenko Donchev <lenko.donchev@xxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/dc/link/protocols/link_dpcd.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/dc/link/protocols/link_dpcd.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/dc/link/protocols/link_dpcd.c index 5c9a30211c10..b67cd78e7c58 100644 --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/dc/link/protocols/link_dpcd.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/dc/link/protocols/link_dpcd.c @@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ static void dpcd_extend_address_range( if (new_addr_range.start != in_address || new_addr_range.end != end_address) { *out_address = new_addr_range.start; *out_size = ADDRESS_RANGE_SIZE(new_addr_range.start, new_addr_range.end); - *out_data = kzalloc(*out_size * sizeof(**out_data), GFP_KERNEL); + *out_data = kcalloc(*out_size, sizeof(**out_data), GFP_KERNEL); } } -- 2.43.0
