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Commit 0e6f3ef4 authored by Len Baker's avatar Len Baker Committed by Saeed Mahameed
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net/mlx5: DR, Prefer kcalloc over open coded arithmetic

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: default avatarLen Baker <len.baker@gmx.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSaeed Mahameed <saeedm@nvidia.com>
parent 0885ae1a
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