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[62.151.111.63]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id ffacd0b85a97d-3e7607870cfsm26394071f8f.19.2025.09.17.03.49.04 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Wed, 17 Sep 2025 03:49:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Javier Martinez Canillas To: James Flowers , maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com, mripard@kernel.org, tzimmermann@suse.de, airlied@gmail.com, simona@ffwll.ch, skhan@linuxfoundation.com Cc: James Flowers , dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel-mentees@lists.linux.dev Subject: Re: [PATCH] drm/ssd130x: Use kmalloc_array() instead of kmalloc() In-Reply-To: <20250914073841.69582-1-bold.zone2373@fastmail.com> References: <20250914073841.69582-1-bold.zone2373@fastmail.com> Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2025 12:49:03 +0200 Message-ID: <871po54an4.fsf@minerva.mail-host-address-is-not-set> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain James Flowers writes: > Documentation/process/deprecated.rst recommends against the use of > kmalloc with dynamic size calculations due to the risk of overflow and > smaller allocation being made than the caller was expecting. > kmalloc_array avoids this issue. > > Signed-off-by: James Flowers > --- Pushed to drm-misc (drm-misc-next). Thanks! -- Best regards, Javier Martinez Canillas Core Platforms Red Hat