lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2021]   [Sep]   [13]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
From
SubjectRe: [PATCH] i3c/master/mipi-i3c-hci: Prefer struct_size over open coded arithmetic
Date
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>

\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2021-09-13 19:41    [W:0.037 / U:1.216 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site