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This is an effort to get rid of all multiplications from allocation
functions in order to prevent integer overflows.
The cpu variable is a pointer to "struct bcm7038_l1_cpu" and this structure
ends in a flexible array:
struct bcm7038_l1_cpu {
void __iomem *map_base;
u32 mask_cache[];
};
The preferred way in the kernel is to use the struct_size() helper to
do the arithmetic instead of the argument "size + count * size" in the
kzalloc() function.
This way, the code is more readable and more safer.
Signed-off-by: Erick Archer <erick.archer@gmx.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <florian.fainelli@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240209183128.10273-1-erick.archer@gmx.com
Link: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#open-coded-arithmetic-in-allocator-arguments [1]
Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/162 [2]
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.