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author | Len Baker <len.baker@gmx.com> | 2021-09-19 12:44:32 +0300 |
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committer | Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org> | 2022-04-26 18:20:00 +0300 |
commit | cc68c613d6eeac921e6ef5987db5c764858fab1c (patch) | |
tree | a21bdd5f405a235efc394b83787df9d8b3afddcf /.clang-format | |
parent | ce522ba9ef7e2d9fb22a39eb3371c0c64e2a433e (diff) | |
download | linux-cc68c613d6eeac921e6ef5987db5c764858fab1c.tar.xz |
afs: 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/latest/process/deprecated.html#open-coded-arithmetic-in-allocator-arguments
Signed-off-by: Len Baker <len.baker@gmx.com>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>
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