From: Len Baker <len.baker@gmx.com>
To: Alex Dubov <oakad@yahoo.com>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Len Baker <len.baker@gmx.com>, Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] tifm: Prefer struct_size over open coded arithmetic
Date: Sun, 5 Sep 2021 17:37:07 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210905153707.9638-1-len.baker@gmx.com> (raw)
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, use the struct_size() helper to do the arithmetic instead of the
argument "size + 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 <len.baker@gmx.com>
---
drivers/misc/tifm_core.c | 3 +--
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/misc/tifm_core.c b/drivers/misc/tifm_core.c
index 667e574a7df2..9babf171a035 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/tifm_core.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/tifm_core.c
@@ -177,8 +177,7 @@ struct tifm_adapter *tifm_alloc_adapter(unsigned int num_sockets,
{
struct tifm_adapter *fm;
- fm = kzalloc(sizeof(struct tifm_adapter)
- + sizeof(struct tifm_dev*) * num_sockets, GFP_KERNEL);
+ fm = kzalloc(struct_size(fm, sockets, num_sockets), GFP_KERNEL);
if (fm) {
fm->dev.class = &tifm_adapter_class;
fm->dev.parent = dev;
--
2.25.1
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