Re: [PATCH] net/mlx5: convert miss_list allocation to kvmalloc_array()

[Tariq Toukan <tariqt@nvidia.com>]

On 01/06/2026 22:37, William Theesfeld wrote:
> dr_icm_buddy_init_ste_cache() allocates the per-buddy miss_list using
> the open-coded kvmalloc(n * sizeof(*p), ...) form.  The neighbouring
> allocations in the same function already use the kvcalloc()/
> kvzalloc_objs() forms; switch this last one to kvmalloc_array() for
> consistency and for the size_mul overflow check that kvmalloc_array()
> performs.
> 
> The semantics are unchanged: kvmalloc_array() returns a non-zeroed
> buffer, just like the previous kvmalloc() call.  Existing callers of
> buddy->miss_list initialise each list_head before use.
> 
> Signed-off-by: William Theesfeld <william@theesfeld.net>
> ---
>   .../net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/steering/sws/dr_icm_pool.c  | 2 +-
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/steering/sws/dr_icm_pool.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/steering/sws/dr_icm_pool.c
> index 7a0a15822..fa4d24b3d 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/steering/sws/dr_icm_pool.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/steering/sws/dr_icm_pool.c
> @@ -239,7 +239,7 @@ static int dr_icm_buddy_init_ste_cache(struct mlx5dr_icm_buddy_mem *buddy)
>   	if (!buddy->hw_ste_arr)
>   		goto free_ste_arr;
>   
> -	buddy->miss_list = kvmalloc(num_of_entries * sizeof(struct list_head), GFP_KERNEL);
> +	buddy->miss_list = kvmalloc_array(num_of_entries, sizeof(struct list_head), GFP_KERNEL);
>   	if (!buddy->miss_list)
>   		goto free_hw_ste_arr;
>   

Reviewed-by: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@nvidia.com>

Thanks for your patch.