linux-kernel - [PATCH 2/2] refscale: Use kcalloc() instead of kzalloc()

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Message-Id: <20250821134117.6347-3-rongqianfeng@vivo.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2025 21:41:17 +0800
From: Qianfeng Rong <rongqianfeng@...o.com>
To: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@...olabs.net>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>,
	Josh Triplett <josh@...htriplett.org>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@...nel.org>,
	Neeraj Upadhyay <neeraj.upadhyay@...nel.org>,
	Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@...dia.com>,
	Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@...il.com>,
	Uladzislau Rezki <urezki@...il.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
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	Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@...il.com>,
	Zqiang <qiang.zhang@...ux.dev>,
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	rcu@...r.kernel.org (open list:READ-COPY UPDATE (RCU))
Cc: Qianfeng Rong <rongqianfeng@...o.com>
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] refscale: Use kcalloc() instead of kzalloc()

Use kcalloc() in main_func() to gain built-in overflow protection, making
memory allocation safer when calculating allocation size compared to
explicit multiplication.

Signed-off-by: Qianfeng Rong <rongqianfeng@...o.com>
---
 kernel/rcu/refscale.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/rcu/refscale.c b/kernel/rcu/refscale.c
index df646e0694a8..5840fac06feb 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/refscale.c
+++ b/kernel/rcu/refscale.c
@@ -1021,7 +1021,7 @@ static int main_func(void *arg)
 	set_user_nice(current, MAX_NICE);
 
 	VERBOSE_SCALEOUT("main_func task started");
-	result_avg = kzalloc(nruns * sizeof(*result_avg), GFP_KERNEL);
+	result_avg = kcalloc(nruns, sizeof(*result_avg), GFP_KERNEL);
 	buf = kzalloc(800 + 64, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!result_avg || !buf) {
 		SCALEOUT_ERRSTRING("out of memory");
-- 
2.34.1