On Sun, Sep 05, 2021 at 10:18:12AM +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. > > In this case this is not actually dynamic sizes: both sides of the > multiplication are constant values. However it is best to refactor this > anyway, just to keep the open-coded math idiom out of code. > > So, use the purpose specific kcalloc() function instead of the argument > size * count in the kzalloc() function. > > Also, remove the unnecessary initialization of the sqp_tbl variable > since it is set a few lines later. > > [1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v5.14/process/deprecated.html#open-coded-arithmetic-in-allocator-arguments > > Signed-off-by: Len Baker <len.baker@xxxxxxx> > --- > drivers/infiniband/hw/bnxt_re/ib_verbs.c | 4 ++-- > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > Thanks, Reviewed-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@xxxxxxxxxx>
