[PATCH] fs: erofs: xattr.c change kzalloc to kcalloc

Gao Xiang hsiangkao at linux.alibaba.com
Mon Dec 23 14:32:19 AEDT 2024



On 2024/12/23 11:00, Ethan Carter Edwards wrote:
>  From 272d7ef4611e64269fada0ea3021eece590118b9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Ethan Carter Edwards <ethan at ethancedwards.com>
> Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2024 21:23:56 -0500
> Subject: [PATCH] fs: erofs: xattr.c change kzalloc to kcalloc
> 
> Refactor xattr.c to use kcalloc instead of kzalloc when multiplying
> allocation size by count. This refactor prevents unintentional
> memory overflows. Discovered by checkpatch.pl.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ethan Carter Edwards <ethan at ethancedwards.com>

Reviewed-by: Gao Xiang <hsiangkao at linux.alibaba.com>

Although your raw patch format is incorrect.  You shouldn't
send the whole patch as the content, but just use
`git send-email` to send the patch.

I've fixed it up manually, no need to resend.

Thanks,
Gao Xiang

> ---
>   fs/erofs/xattr.c | 2 +-
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/erofs/xattr.c b/fs/erofs/xattr.c
> index a90d7d649739..7940241d9355 100644
> --- a/fs/erofs/xattr.c
> +++ b/fs/erofs/xattr.c
> @@ -478,7 +478,7 @@ int erofs_xattr_prefixes_init(struct super_block *sb)
>   	if (!sbi->xattr_prefix_count)
>   		return 0;
>   
> -	pfs = kzalloc(sbi->xattr_prefix_count * sizeof(*pfs), GFP_KERNEL);
> +	pfs = kcalloc(sbi->xattr_prefix_count, sizeof(*pfs), GFP_KERNEL);
>   	if (!pfs)
>   		return -ENOMEM;
>   



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