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author | Len Baker <len.baker@gmx.com> | 2021-09-05 17:37:07 +0200 |
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committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2021-09-14 11:23:07 +0200 |
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tifm: Prefer struct_size over open coded arithmetic
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>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210905153707.9638-1-len.baker@gmx.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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