Re: [PATCH] nfp: Prefer struct_size over open coded arithmetic

From: Gustavo A. R. Silva
Date: Sun Sep 12 2021 - 15:04:52 EST


On Sun, Sep 12, 2021 at 03:10:57PM +0200, Len Baker wrote:
> 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 <len.baker@xxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@xxxxxxxxxx>

I'll take this in my -next tree. :)

Thanks, Len.
--
Gustavo

> ---
> drivers/net/ethernet/netronome/nfp/nfp_net_repr.c | 3 +--
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/netronome/nfp/nfp_net_repr.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/netronome/nfp/nfp_net_repr.c
> index 3b8e675087de..369f6ae700c7 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/netronome/nfp/nfp_net_repr.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/netronome/nfp/nfp_net_repr.c
> @@ -499,8 +499,7 @@ struct nfp_reprs *nfp_reprs_alloc(unsigned int num_reprs)
> {
> struct nfp_reprs *reprs;
>
> - reprs = kzalloc(sizeof(*reprs) +
> - num_reprs * sizeof(struct net_device *), GFP_KERNEL);
> + reprs = kzalloc(struct_size(reprs, reprs, num_reprs), GFP_KERNEL);
> if (!reprs)
> return NULL;
> reprs->num_reprs = num_reprs;
> --
> 2.25.1
>