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authorErick Archer <erick.archer@gmx.com>2024-01-20 16:54:00 +0300
committerPalmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>2024-03-20 18:56:07 +0300
commit28e4748e5e3d313056ed38abeff4b455abd02c1b (patch)
tree98571c4c496c626303359d2de00210638abfac8f /arch/riscv
parent85ab6fdf3791c68aa7b8eb484f68855b8a6b9884 (diff)
downloadlinux-28e4748e5e3d313056ed38abeff4b455abd02c1b.tar.xz
riscv: Use kcalloc() instead of kzalloc()
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. So, use the purpose specific kcalloc() function instead of the argument count * size in the kzalloc() function. Also, it is preferred to use sizeof(*pointer) instead of sizeof(type) due to the type of the variable can change and one needs not change the former (unlike the latter). Link: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/next/process/deprecated.html#open-coded-arithmetic-in-allocator-arguments [1] Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/162 Signed-off-by: Erick Archer <erick.archer@gmx.com> Reviewed-by: Alexandre Ghiti <alexghiti@rivosinc.com> Reviewed-by: Andrew Jones <ajones@ventanamicro.com> Reviewed-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240120135400.4710-1-erick.archer@gmx.com Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/riscv')
-rw-r--r--arch/riscv/kernel/unaligned_access_speed.c3
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/unaligned_access_speed.c b/arch/riscv/kernel/unaligned_access_speed.c
index 52264ea4f0bd..a9a6bcb02acf 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/kernel/unaligned_access_speed.c
+++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/unaligned_access_speed.c
@@ -218,8 +218,7 @@ static int check_unaligned_access_speed_all_cpus(void)
{
unsigned int cpu;
unsigned int cpu_count = num_possible_cpus();
- struct page **bufs = kzalloc(cpu_count * sizeof(struct page *),
- GFP_KERNEL);
+ struct page **bufs = kcalloc(cpu_count, sizeof(*bufs), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!bufs) {
pr_warn("Allocation failure, not measuring misaligned performance\n");