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

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Message-ID: <9e808d38-c720-fd59-8bc1-d1da6255c59b@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2025 15:10:33 +0530 (IST)
From: HariKrishna Sagala <hariconscious@...il.com>
To: Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>, 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 Wed, 15 Oct 2025, Mark Brown wrote:

> 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.
>
Just reminding for an opportunity to check this patch.
Thank you.