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[PATCH] net: mana: Prefer struct_size over open coded arithmetic

From: Len Baker <hidden>
Date: 2021-09-11 10:28:59
Also in: dri-devel, linux-hardening, linux-hyperv, linux-media, lkml
Subsystem: hyper-v/azure core and drivers, networking drivers, the rest · Maintainers: "K. Y. Srinivasan", Haiyang Zhang, Wei Liu, Dexuan Cui, Long Li, Andrew Lunn, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds

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() 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/net/ethernet/microsoft/mana/hw_channel.c | 4 +---
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/microsoft/mana/hw_channel.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/microsoft/mana/hw_channel.c
index 1a923fd99990..0efdc6c3c32a 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/microsoft/mana/hw_channel.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/microsoft/mana/hw_channel.c
@@ -398,9 +398,7 @@ static int mana_hwc_alloc_dma_buf(struct hw_channel_context *hwc, u16 q_depth,
 	int err;
 	u16 i;

-	dma_buf = kzalloc(sizeof(*dma_buf) +
-			  q_depth * sizeof(struct hwc_work_request),
-			  GFP_KERNEL);
+	dma_buf = kzalloc(struct_size(dma_buf, reqs, q_depth), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!dma_buf)
 		return -ENOMEM;

--
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