From: "Vishal Moola (Oracle)" <vishal.moola@gmail.com>
To: I Viswanath <viswanathiyyappan@gmail.com>
Cc: shuah@kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, david@redhat.com,
lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com, Liam.Howlett@oracle.com,
vbabka@suse.cz, rppt@kernel.org, surenb@google.com,
mhocko@suse.com, linux-mm@kvack.org,
linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org, skhan@linuxfoundation.org,
linux-kernel-mentees@lists.linux.dev
Subject: Re: [PATCH] selftests/mm: use calloc instead of malloc in pagemap_ioctl.c
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2025 11:56:24 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aKyx2IKTLpaxjZnV@fedora> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250825170643.63174-1-viswanathiyyappan@gmail.com>
On Mon, Aug 25, 2025 at 10:36:43PM +0530, I Viswanath wrote:
> As per Documentation/process/deprecated.rst, dynamic size calculations
> should not be performed in memory allocator arguments due to possible
> overflows.
>
> Replaced malloc with calloc to avoid open-ended arithmetic
> and prevent possible overflows.
>
> Signed-off-by: I Viswanath <viswanathiyyappan@gmail.com>
> ---
LGTM.
Reviewed-by: Vishal Moola (Oracle) <vishal.moola@gmail.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-08-25 18:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-08-25 17:06 [PATCH] selftests/mm: use calloc instead of malloc in pagemap_ioctl.c I Viswanath
2025-08-25 18:56 ` Vishal Moola (Oracle) [this message]
2025-08-25 19:21 ` David Hildenbrand
2025-08-26 4:41 ` Donet Tom
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