The main reason of this patch serie is to avoid dynamic size calculations (especially multiplication) in memory allocator 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. However, there is a previous patch to avoid CamelCase in the name of variables. Len Baker (2): staging/rtl8192u: Avoid CamelCase in names of variables staging/rtl8192u: Prefer kcalloc over open coded arithmetic drivers/staging/rtl8192u/r819xU_phy.c | 92 +++++++++++++-------------- 1 file changed, 44 insertions(+), 48 deletions(-) -- 2.25.1
