Re: [PATCH] mtd: rawnand: atmel: use struct_size() in devm_kzalloc()

[Kees Cook]

On Thu, Aug 23, 2018 at 6:09 PM, Gustavo A. R. Silva
<gustavo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> One of the more common cases of allocation size calculations is finding
> the size of a structure that has a zero-sized array at the end, along
> with memory for some number of elements for that array. For example:
>
> struct foo {
>         int stuff;
>         void *entry[];
> };
>
> instance = devm_kzalloc(dev, sizeof(struct foo) + sizeof(void *) * count, GFP_KERNEL);
>
> Instead of leaving these open-coded and prone to type mistakes, we can
> now use the new struct_size() helper:
>
> instance = devm_kzalloc(dev, struct_size(instance, entry, count), GFP_KERNEL);
>
> This issue was detected with the help of Coccinelle.
>
> Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

-Kees

> ---
>  drivers/mtd/nand/raw/atmel/nand-controller.c | 4 +---
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/mtd/nand/raw/atmel/nand-controller.c b/drivers/mtd/nand/raw/atmel/nand-controller.c
> index a068b21..b17cfd0 100644
> --- a/drivers/mtd/nand/raw/atmel/nand-controller.c
> +++ b/drivers/mtd/nand/raw/atmel/nand-controller.c
> @@ -1586,9 +1586,7 @@ static struct atmel_nand *atmel_nand_create(struct atmel_nand_controller *nc,
>                 return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
>         }
>
> -       nand = devm_kzalloc(nc->dev,
> -                           sizeof(*nand) + (numcs * sizeof(*nand->cs)),
> -                           GFP_KERNEL);
> +       nand = devm_kzalloc(nc->dev, struct_size(nand, cs, numcs), GFP_KERNEL);
>         if (!nand) {
>                 dev_err(nc->dev, "Failed to allocate NAND object\n");
>                 return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
> --
> 2.7.4
>



-- 
Kees Cook
Pixel Security