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Documentation: power: Use kcalloc() instead of kzalloc()
authorErick Archer <erick.archer@gmx.com>
Sun, 21 Jan 2024 10:43:44 +0000 (11:43 +0100)
committerViresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Tue, 23 Jan 2024 06:10:42 +0000 (11:40 +0530)
commit9ac3ebaef3cc43ecd136911c44f1427286ee5a05
tree7d5754b1f4cba84655b7b9e30fd7ed379c239603
parent788715b5f21c6455264fe00a1779e61bec407fe2
Documentation: power: 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, in the example code use the purpose specific kcalloc() function
instead of the argument size * count in the kzalloc() function.

At the same time, modify the translations accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Erick Archer <erick.archer@gmx.com>
Reviewed-by: Hu Haowen <2023002089@link.tyut.edu.cn>
Reviewed-by: Yanteng Si <siyanteng@loongson.cn>
Reviewed-by: Hu Haowen <2023002089@link.tyut.edu.cn>
Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Documentation/power/opp.rst
Documentation/translations/zh_CN/power/opp.rst