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clk: ti: composite: Prefer kcalloc over open coded arithmetic

Message ID 20210904131714.2312-1-len.baker@gmx.com (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Series clk: ti: composite: Prefer kcalloc over open coded arithmetic | expand

Commit Message

Len Baker Sept. 4, 2021, 1:17 p.m. UTC
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, 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@gmx.com>
---
 drivers/clk/ti/composite.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

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2.25.1

Comments

Stephen Boyd May 21, 2022, 3:40 a.m. UTC | #1
Quoting Len Baker (2021-09-04 06:17:14)
> 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, 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@gmx.com>
> ---

Applied to clk-next
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Patch

diff --git a/drivers/clk/ti/composite.c b/drivers/clk/ti/composite.c
index eaa43575cfa5..eb5ce9735c7d 100644
--- a/drivers/clk/ti/composite.c
+++ b/drivers/clk/ti/composite.c
@@ -253,7 +253,7 @@  int __init ti_clk_add_component(struct device_node *node, struct clk_hw *hw,
 		return -EINVAL;
 	}

-	parent_names = kzalloc((sizeof(char *) * num_parents), GFP_KERNEL);
+	parent_names = kcalloc(num_parents, sizeof(char *), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!parent_names)
 		return -ENOMEM;