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| author | Len Baker <len.baker@gmx.com> | 2021-09-05 17:57:28 +0200 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2021-09-14 10:00:51 +0200 |
| commit | 42c457cc9a0a1a089ee4e8b4a32717412abb8d60 (patch) | |
| tree | 47b48a7f154660c18ba9f63a1385df7e04fe6238 /drivers/tty/serial | |
| parent | 0f3b577384c07cdefd5735f78f9f375c6afe810e (diff) | |
serial: 8250_pci: 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/v5.14/process/deprecated.html#open-coded-arithmetic-in-allocator-arguments
Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Baker <len.baker@gmx.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210905155728.11147-1-len.baker@gmx.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/tty/serial')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_pci.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_pci.c b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_pci.c index 726912b16a55..93159557a2fb 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; |