linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mtd: rawnand: use kcalloc() instead of kzalloc()

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Message-Id: <174041161086.1746756.7095949485766246490.b4-ty@bootlin.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2025 16:40:10 +0100
From: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@...tlin.com>
To: Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>, 
 Vignesh Raghavendra <vigneshr@...com>, 
 Ethan Carter Edwards <ethan@...ancedwards.com>
Cc: linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, 
 linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mtd: rawnand: use kcalloc() instead of kzalloc()

On Sat, 22 Feb 2025 14:19:43 -0500, Ethan Carter Edwards wrote:
> We are trying to get rid of all multiplications from allocation
> functions to prevent integer overflows[1]. Here the multiplication is
> obviously safe, but using kcalloc() is more appropriate and improves
> readability. This patch has no effect on runtime behavior.
> 
> Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/162 [1]
> Link: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/next/process/deprecated.html#open-coded-arithmetic-in-allocator-arguments
> 
> [...]

Applied to nand/next, thanks!

[1/1] mtd: rawnand: use kcalloc() instead of kzalloc()
      commit: 34684bb5e43609ba8ac1a54c4e585493c5486cab

Patche(s) should be available on mtd/linux.git and will be
part of the next PR (provided that no robot complains by then).

Kind regards,
Miquèl