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authorLen Baker <len.baker@gmx.com>2021-09-19 14:40:40 +0300
committerJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>2021-09-23 14:38:11 +0300
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nl80211: 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 + count * size" in the kzalloc() functions. Also, take the opportunity to refactor the memcpy() call to use the flex_array_size() helper. [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> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210919114040.41522-1-len.baker@gmx.com [remove unnecessary variable] Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
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