Thread (2 messages) 2 messages, 2 authors, 2021-09-05
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[PATCH] serial: 8250_pci: Prefer struct_size over open coded arithmetic

From: Len Baker <hidden>
Date: 2021-09-05 15:58:22
Also in: linux-hardening, linux-serial
Subsystem: 8250/16?50 (and clone uarts) serial driver, the rest, tty layer and serial drivers · Maintainers: Greg Kroah-Hartman, Linus Torvalds, Jiri Slaby

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 <redacted>
---
 drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_pci.c | 4 +---
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_pci.c b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_pci.c
index a808c283883e..b97ade35d4a3 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_pci.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_pci.c
@@ -3981,9 +3981,7 @@ pciserial_init_ports(struct pci_dev *dev, const struct pciserial_board *board)
 			nr_ports = rc;
 	}

-	priv = kzalloc(sizeof(struct serial_private) +
-		       sizeof(unsigned int) * nr_ports,
-		       GFP_KERNEL);
+	priv = kzalloc(struct_size(priv, line, nr_ports), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!priv) {
 		priv = ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
 		goto err_deinit;
--
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