Messages in this thread | | | From | Alexandre Belloni <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] i3c/master/mipi-i3c-hci: Prefer struct_size over open coded arithmetic | Date | Mon, 13 Sep 2021 19:39:45 +0200 |
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On Sun, 5 Sep 2021 16:40:54 +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, thanks!
[1/1] i3c/master/mipi-i3c-hci: Prefer struct_size over open coded arithmetic commit: 605fa23646dd9a86c4300e1719542a865111d1b6
Best regards, -- Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com>
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