wifi: iwlegacy: Use kcalloc() instead of kzalloc()
authorErick Archer <erick.archer@gmx.com>
Fri, 19 Jan 2024 17:16:55 +0000 (18:16 +0100)
committerKalle Valo <kvalo@kernel.org>
Tue, 23 Jan 2024 11:51:24 +0000 (13:51 +0200)
commitacf868ff60b1cd1f2e597f0b15aee2ff43f9fcd3
treed732f9aef145cbbc54249d4f4f9ecd61611acc87
parent5ba45ba77616637e554d66a57ef0334e5cc2efe4
wifi: iwlegacy: 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
size * count 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
Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/162
Signed-off-by: Erick Archer <erick.archer@gmx.com>
Reviewed-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <stf_xl@wp.pl>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@kernel.org>
Link: https://msgid.link/20240119171655.7740-1-erick.archer@gmx.com
drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlegacy/common.c