linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] backlight: pwm_bl: Avoid open coded arithmetic in memory allocation

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Date:   Mon, 7 Feb 2022 09:31:00 +0000
From:   Lee Jones <lee.jones@...aro.org>
To:     Uwe Kleine-König 
        <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>
Cc:     Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@...adoo.fr>,
        Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@...il.com>,
        Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@...aro.org>,
        Jingoo Han <jingoohan1@...il.com>,
        Helge Deller <deller@....de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, linux-pwm@...r.kernel.org,
        dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org, linux-fbdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] backlight: pwm_bl: Avoid open coded arithmetic in memory
 allocation

On Mon, 07 Feb 2022, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:

> On Sat, Feb 05, 2022 at 08:40:48AM +0100, Christophe JAILLET wrote:
> > kmalloc_array()/kcalloc() should be used to avoid potential overflow when
> > a multiplication is needed to compute the size of the requested memory.
> > 
> > So turn a kzalloc()+explicit size computation into an equivalent kcalloc().
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@...adoo.fr>
> 
> LGTM
> 
> Acked-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@...adoo.fr>
> 
> Thanks
> Uwe

I am totally confused!

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