Re: [PATCH] net/mlx5: DR, Prefer kcalloc over open coded arithmetic

On Sun, 2021-09-05 at 09:49 +0200, Len Baker wrote:

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, refactor the code a bit to use the purpose specific kcalloc()
function instead of the argument size * count in the kzalloc()
function.

[1]
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v5.14/process/deprecated.html#open-coded-arithmetic-in-allocator-arguments

Signed-off-by: Len Baker <redacted>

applied to net-next-mlx5,

Thanks.