On Sat, 2019-08-10 at 21:40 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> 3.16.72-rc1 review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

Unless to enable applying further patches,
I doubt there is ever a need to have any
of Markus Elfring's patches applied to any
-stable kernel.

> ------------------
> 
> From: Markus Elfring <[email protected]>
> 
> commit 057ac1acdfc4743f066fcefe359385cad00549eb upstream.
> 
> A multiplication for the size determination of a memory allocation
> indicated that an array data structure should be processed.
> Thus use the corresponding function "kmalloc_array".
> 
> This issue was detected by using the Coccinelle software.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <[email protected]>
> ---
>  drivers/iio/industrialio-buffer.c | 7 +++----
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> --- a/drivers/iio/industrialio-buffer.c
> +++ b/drivers/iio/industrialio-buffer.c
> @@ -836,10 +836,9 @@ int iio_scan_mask_set(struct iio_dev *in
>       const unsigned long *mask;
>       unsigned long *trialmask;
>  
> -     trialmask = kmalloc(sizeof(*trialmask)*
> -                         BITS_TO_LONGS(indio_dev->masklength),
> -                         GFP_KERNEL);
> -
> +     trialmask = kmalloc_array(BITS_TO_LONGS(indio_dev->masklength),
> +                               sizeof(*trialmask),
> +                               GFP_KERNEL);
>       if (trialmask == NULL)
>               return -ENOMEM;
>       if (!indio_dev->masklength) {
> 

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