Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] riscv: Use kcalloc() instead of kzalloc() | From | patchwork-bot+linux-riscv@kernel ... | Date | Wed, 20 Mar 2024 20:50:39 +0000 |
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Hello:
This patch was applied to riscv/linux.git (for-next) by Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>:
On Sat, 20 Jan 2024 14:54:00 +0100 you 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. > > [...]
Here is the summary with links: - riscv: Use kcalloc() instead of kzalloc() https://git.kernel.org/riscv/c/28e4748e5e3d
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