Commit 0a5e20fc authored by Len Baker's avatar Len Baker Committed by Martin K. Petersen

scsi: elx: libefc: 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.

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

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

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210905062448.6587-1-len.baker@gmx.comReviewed-by: default avatarJames Smart <jsmart2021@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLen Baker <len.baker@gmx.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMartin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
parent 0d6b2679
......@@ -686,7 +686,7 @@ efc_process_gidpt_payload(struct efc_node *node,
}
/* Allocate a buffer for all nodes */
active_nodes = kzalloc(port_count * sizeof(*active_nodes), GFP_ATOMIC);
active_nodes = kcalloc(port_count, sizeof(*active_nodes), GFP_ATOMIC);
if (!active_nodes) {
node_printf(node, "efc_malloc failed\n");
return -EIO;
......
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