linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] dmaengine: milbeaut-hdmac: Prefer kcalloc over open coded arithmetic

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Date:   Mon, 25 Oct 2021 12:12:20 +0530
From:   Vinod Koul <vkoul@...nel.org>
To:     Len Baker <len.baker@....com>
Cc:     Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>, linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org,
        dmaengine@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] dmaengine: milbeaut-hdmac: Prefer kcalloc over open
 coded arithmetic

On 04-09-21, 16:58, 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.
> 
> So, use the purpose specific kcalloc() function instead of the argument
> size * count in the kzalloc() function.

Applied, thanks

-- 
~Vinod