linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Staging rtlwifi efuse fix up a warning kzalloc

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Date:   Sat, 26 Aug 2017 08:26:35 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net>,
        Yurii Pavlenko <pyldev@...il.com>
Cc:     gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, pkshih@...ltek.com,
        devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Staging rtlwifi efuse fix up a warning kzalloc

On Sat, 2017-08-26 at 09:48 -0500, Larry Finger wrote:
> I will NACK every 
> patch that tries to force code that I maintain to use kcalloc over kzalloc.

Your choice.

The concept behind the kzalloc with multiply vs kcalloc
is protection against multiplication overflow.

It's unlikely to solve any real problem with a
sizeof(foo) * small known number of entries.

It does have application when number of entries is
a user specified value.