On Sun, 2021-09-05 at 09:49 +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. > > So, refactor the code a bit to use the purpose specific kcalloc() > function instead of the argument size * count in the kzalloc() > function. > > [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> applied to net-next-mlx5, Thanks.
