linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] sound/soc/sof:Use kmalloc

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Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2025 20:08:48 +0100
From: Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To: hariconscious@...il.com
Cc: lgirdwood@...il.com, peter.ujfalusi@...ux.intel.com,
	yung-chuan.liao@...ux.intel.com, ranjani.sridharan@...ux.intel.com,
	daniel.baluta@....com, kai.vehmanen@...ux.intel.com,
	pierre-louis.bossart@...ux.dev, shuah@...nel.org, perex@...ex.cz,
	tiwai@...e.com, sound-open-firmware@...a-project.org,
	linux-sound@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sound/soc/sof:Use kmalloc_array instead of kmalloc

On Tue, Sep 23, 2025 at 07:55:13PM +0530, hariconscious@...il.com wrote:
> From: HariKrishna Sagala <hariconscious@...il.com>
> 
> Documentation/process/deprecated.rst recommends to avoid the use of
> kmalloc with dynamic size calculations due to the risk of them
> overflowing. This could lead to values wrapping around and a

Please submit patches using subject lines reflecting the style for the
subsystem, this makes it easier for people to identify relevant patches.
Look at what existing commits in the area you're changing are doing and
make sure your subject lines visually resemble what they're doing.
There's no need to resubmit to fix this alone.

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