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ice: Prefer kcalloc over open coded arithmetic
authorLen Baker <len.baker@gmx.com>
Sun, 5 Sep 2021 06:50:20 +0000 (08:50 +0200)
committerTony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com>
Tue, 28 Sep 2021 16:42:04 +0000 (09:42 -0700)
commitfd12abdc59ffeb871d3ea9fb8add43dd8bda03f2
treefffa6faafde8b203d1c523c8bd0e659aeea74f79
parentcb71d87bf11e4d9a74c6fe34a0f2825ff5a4f537
ice: Prefer kcalloc over open coded arithmetic

As noted in the "Deprecated Interfaces, Language Features, Attributes,
and Conventions" documentation [1], size calculations (especially
multiplication) should not be performed in memory allocator (or similar)
function arguments due to the risk of them overflowing. This could lead
to values wrapping around and a smaller allocation being made than the
caller was expecting. Using those allocations could lead to linear
overflows of heap memory and other misbehaviors.

In this case this is not actually dynamic sizes: both sides of the
multiplication are constant values. However it is best to refactor this
anyway, just to keep the open-coded math idiom out of code.

So, use the purpose specific kcalloc() function instead of the argument
size * count in the kzalloc() function.

[1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v5.14/process/deprecated.html#open-coded-arithmetic-in-allocator-arguments

Signed-off-by: Len Baker <len.baker@gmx.com>
Reviewed-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com>
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_arfs.c