Commit cc68c613 authored by Len Baker's avatar Len Baker Committed by Gustavo A. R. Silva
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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: default avatarLen Baker <len.baker@gmx.com>
Acked-by: default avatarDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarGustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>
parent ce522ba9
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@@ -219,8 +219,7 @@ void afs_cache_permit(struct afs_vnode *vnode, struct key *key,
	 * yet.
	 */
	size++;
	new = kzalloc(sizeof(struct afs_permits) +
		      sizeof(struct afs_permit) * size, GFP_NOFS);
	new = kzalloc(struct_size(new, permits, size), GFP_NOFS);
	if (!new)
		goto out_put;