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authorLen Baker <len.baker@gmx.com>2021-09-25 13:43:08 +0200
committerGustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>2021-10-20 18:20:28 -0500
commit98b160c828f312955daa94713a5fca595400b8c3 (patch)
tree8767511bccbb8eb9c6478118b942f02a296bcc05 /fs/signalfd.c
parentc2e4e3b75623dc835a2fe446db868e35c26dcaaf (diff)
writeback: 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. In this case these are not actually dynamic sizes: all the operands involved in the calculation are constant values. However it is better to refactor them anyway, just to keep the open-coded math idiom out of code. So, use the struct_size() helper to do the arithmetic instead of the argument "size + count * size" in the kzalloc() functions. This code was detected with the help of Coccinelle and audited and fixed manually. [1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#open-coded-arithmetic-in-allocator-arguments Signed-off-by: Len Baker <len.baker@gmx.com> Reviewed-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>
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