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From: Ruben Wauters <rubenru09@aol.com>
To: Mehdi Ben Hadj Khelifa <mehdi.benhadjkhelifa@gmail.com>,
	 maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com, mripard@kernel.org,
	tzimmermann@suse.de, airlied@gmail.com, simona@ffwll.ch,
	mingo@kernel.org, tglx@linutronix.de,  jfalempe@redhat.com,
	dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org,  linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel-mentees@lists.linuxfoundation.org,
		skhan@linuxfoundation.org, david.hunter.linux@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] drm/gud: Use kmalloc_array() instead of kmalloc()
Date: Sat, 04 Oct 2025 17:13:33 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <d957bb721c9039287833ca0a9e2cebd60943c5f8.camel@aol.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250923085144.22582-1-mehdi.benhadjkhelifa@gmail.com>

On Tue, 2025-09-23 at 09:51 +0100, Mehdi Ben Hadj Khelifa wrote:
> Replace kmalloc with kmalloc array in drm/gud/gud_pipe.c since the
> calculation inside kmalloc is dynamic 'width * height' to avoid
> overflow.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mehdi Ben Hadj Khelifa <mehdi.benhadjkhelifa@gmail.com>

Acked-by: Ruben Wauters <rubenru09@aol.com>

> ---
> Changelog:
> 
> Changes since v1:
> - Use of width as element count and height as size of element to
> eliminate the mentionned calculation and overflow issues.
> 
>  drivers/gpu/drm/gud/gud_pipe.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/gud/gud_pipe.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/gud/gud_pipe.c
> index 8d548d08f127..8898dc9393fb 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/gud/gud_pipe.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/gud/gud_pipe.c
> @@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ static size_t gud_xrgb8888_to_r124(u8 *dst, const struct drm_format_info *format
>  	height = drm_rect_height(rect);
>  	len = drm_format_info_min_pitch(format, 0, width) * height;
>  
> -	buf = kmalloc(width * height, GFP_KERNEL);
> +	buf = kmalloc_array(width, height, GFP_KERNEL);
>  	if (!buf)
>  		return 0;
>  

  reply	other threads:[~2025-10-04 16:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-09-23  8:51 [PATCH v2] drm/gud: Use kmalloc_array() instead of kmalloc() Mehdi Ben Hadj Khelifa
2025-10-04 16:13 ` Ruben Wauters [this message]
2025-10-07  7:45 ` Thomas Zimmermann
2025-10-07  8:07   ` Mehdi Ben Hadj Khelifa

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