[PATCH v2] wifi: mwifiex: use kcalloc to apply for chan_stats

From: Qianfeng Rong
Date: Thu Aug 14 2025 - 09:22:16 EST


Use kcalloc to allocate 'adapter->chan_stats' memory (max 900 bytes)
instead of vmalloc for efficiency and zero-initialize it for security
per Dan Carpenter's suggestion.

Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Fixes: bf35443314ac ("mwifiex: channel statistics support for mwifiex")
Suggested-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Qianfeng Rong <rongqianfeng@xxxxxxxx>
---
v2: Change vmalloc_array/vfree to kcalloc/kfree.
---
drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/cfg80211.c | 5 +++--
drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/main.c | 4 ++--
2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/cfg80211.c b/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/cfg80211.c
index 3498743d5ec0..4c8c7a5fdf23 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/cfg80211.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/cfg80211.c
@@ -4673,8 +4673,9 @@ int mwifiex_init_channel_scan_gap(struct mwifiex_adapter *adapter)
* additional active scan request for hidden SSIDs on passive channels.
*/
adapter->num_in_chan_stats = 2 * (n_channels_bg + n_channels_a);
- adapter->chan_stats = vmalloc(array_size(sizeof(*adapter->chan_stats),
- adapter->num_in_chan_stats));
+ adapter->chan_stats = kcalloc(adapter->num_in_chan_stats,
+ sizeof(*adapter->chan_stats),
+ GFP_KERNEL);

if (!adapter->chan_stats)
return -ENOMEM;
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/main.c b/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/main.c
index 7b50a88a18e5..1ec069bc8ea1 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/main.c
@@ -642,7 +642,7 @@ static int _mwifiex_fw_dpc(const struct firmware *firmware, void *context)
goto done;

err_add_intf:
- vfree(adapter->chan_stats);
+ kfree(adapter->chan_stats);
err_init_chan_scan:
wiphy_unregister(adapter->wiphy);
wiphy_free(adapter->wiphy);
@@ -1485,7 +1485,7 @@ static void mwifiex_uninit_sw(struct mwifiex_adapter *adapter)
wiphy_free(adapter->wiphy);
adapter->wiphy = NULL;

- vfree(adapter->chan_stats);
+ kfree(adapter->chan_stats);
mwifiex_free_cmd_buffers(adapter);
}

--
2.34.1