On Sun, 5 Sep 2021 08:24:48 +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.
>
> [...]
Applied to 5.16/scsi-queue, thanks!
[1/1] scsi: elx: libefc: Prefer kcalloc over open coded arithmetic
https://git.kernel.org/mkp/scsi/c/0a5e20fc8ca7
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Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering
