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, in the example code use the purpose specific kcalloc() function instead of the argument size * count in the kzalloc() function. 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.arc...@gmx.com> --- Documentation/translations/zh_CN/power/opp.rst | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Documentation/translations/zh_CN/power/opp.rst b/Documentation/translations/zh_CN/power/opp.rst index 8d6e3f6f6202..7470fa2d4c43 100644 --- a/Documentation/translations/zh_CN/power/opp.rst +++ b/Documentation/translations/zh_CN/power/opp.rst @@ -274,7 +274,7 @@ dev_pm_opp_get_opp_count { /* 做一些事情 */ num_available = dev_pm_opp_get_opp_count(dev); - speeds = kzalloc(sizeof(u32) * num_available, GFP_KERNEL); + speeds = kcalloc(num_available, sizeof(u32), GFP_KERNEL); /* 按升序填充表 */ freq = 0; while (!IS_ERR(opp = dev_pm_opp_find_freq_ceil(dev, &freq))) { -- 2.25.1
