* Re: [PATCH v2] sched/topology: change kzalloc to kcalloc
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@ 2025-02-09 11:00 ` Markus Elfring
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From: Markus Elfring @ 2025-02-09 11:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Ethan Carter Edwards, kernel-hardening, linux-hardening,
Ingo Molnar
Cc: LKML, kernel-janitors, Ben Segall, Peter Zijlstra
> We are replacing any instances of kzalloc(size * count, ...) with
> kcalloc(count, size, ...) due to risk of overflow [1].
* See also:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst?h=v6.13#n94
* How do you think about to use a summary phrase like “Replace two kzalloc() calls
by kcalloc() in sched_init_numa()”?
* Would you be looking for any coccicheck extensions accordingly?
Regards,
Markus
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