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memstick: jmb38x_ms: Prefer struct_size over open coded arithmetic

Message ID 20210911131933.2089-1-len.baker@gmx.com
State New
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Series memstick: jmb38x_ms: Prefer struct_size over open coded arithmetic | expand

Commit Message

Len Baker Sept. 11, 2021, 1:19 p.m. UTC
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 + count * size" 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/memstick/host/jmb38x_ms.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

--
2.25.1

Comments

Ulf Hansson Sept. 14, 2021, 11:23 a.m. UTC | #1
On Sat, 11 Sept 2021 at 15:22, Len Baker <len.baker@gmx.com> wrote:
>

> 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 + count * size" 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>


Applied for next, thanks!

Kind regards
Uffe


> ---

>  drivers/memstick/host/jmb38x_ms.c | 3 +--

>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

>

> diff --git a/drivers/memstick/host/jmb38x_ms.c b/drivers/memstick/host/jmb38x_ms.c

> index f9a93b0565e1..a7a0f0caea15 100644

> --- a/drivers/memstick/host/jmb38x_ms.c

> +++ b/drivers/memstick/host/jmb38x_ms.c

> @@ -927,8 +927,7 @@ static int jmb38x_ms_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev,

>                 goto err_out_int;

>         }

>

> -       jm = kzalloc(sizeof(struct jmb38x_ms)

> -                    + cnt * sizeof(struct memstick_host *), GFP_KERNEL);

> +       jm = kzalloc(struct_size(jm, hosts, cnt), GFP_KERNEL);

>         if (!jm) {

>                 rc = -ENOMEM;

>                 goto err_out_int;

> --

> 2.25.1

>
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diff --git a/drivers/memstick/host/jmb38x_ms.c b/drivers/memstick/host/jmb38x_ms.c
index f9a93b0565e1..a7a0f0caea15 100644
--- a/drivers/memstick/host/jmb38x_ms.c
+++ b/drivers/memstick/host/jmb38x_ms.c
@@ -927,8 +927,7 @@  static int jmb38x_ms_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev,
 		goto err_out_int;
 	}

-	jm = kzalloc(sizeof(struct jmb38x_ms)
-		     + cnt * sizeof(struct memstick_host *), GFP_KERNEL);
+	jm = kzalloc(struct_size(jm, hosts, cnt), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!jm) {
 		rc = -ENOMEM;
 		goto err_out_int;