linux-hardening - [PATCH v2] eventfs: Use kcalloc() instead of kzalloc()

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Message-Id: <20240115181658.4562-1-erick.archer@gmx.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2024 19:16:58 +0100
From: Erick Archer <erick.archer@....com>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>,
	"Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@...nel.org>
Cc: Erick Archer <erick.archer@....com>,
	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>,
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-trace-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v2] eventfs: Use kcalloc() instead of kzalloc()

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 purpose specific kcalloc() function instead of the argument
size * count in the kzalloc() function.

[1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/next/process/deprecated.html#open-coded-arithmetic-in-allocator-arguments

Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/162
Signed-off-by: Erick Archer <erick.archer@....com>
---
Changes in v2:
- Update the commit message to better explain the changes (Mark Rutland)

Previous versions:
v1: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-hardening/20240114105340.5746-1-erick.archer@gmx.com/
---
 fs/tracefs/event_inode.c | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/tracefs/event_inode.c b/fs/tracefs/event_inode.c
index fdff53d5a1f8..f8196289692c 100644
--- a/fs/tracefs/event_inode.c
+++ b/fs/tracefs/event_inode.c
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ static int eventfs_set_attr(struct mnt_idmap *idmap, struct dentry *dentry,
 	/* Preallocate the children mode array if necessary */
 	if (!(dentry->d_inode->i_mode & S_IFDIR)) {
 		if (!ei->entry_attrs) {
-			ei->entry_attrs = kzalloc(sizeof(*ei->entry_attrs) * ei->nr_entries,
+			ei->entry_attrs = kcalloc(ei->nr_entries, sizeof(*ei->entry_attrs),
 						  GFP_NOFS);
 			if (!ei->entry_attrs) {
 				ret = -ENOMEM;
@@ -874,7 +874,7 @@ struct eventfs_inode *eventfs_create_dir(const char *name, struct eventfs_inode
 	}

 	if (size) {
-		ei->d_children = kzalloc(sizeof(*ei->d_children) * size, GFP_KERNEL);
+		ei->d_children = kcalloc(size, sizeof(*ei->d_children), GFP_KERNEL);
 		if (!ei->d_children) {
 			kfree_const(ei->name);
 			kfree(ei);
@@ -941,7 +941,7 @@ struct eventfs_inode *eventfs_create_events_dir(const char *name, struct dentry
 		goto fail;

 	if (size) {
-		ei->d_children = kzalloc(sizeof(*ei->d_children) * size, GFP_KERNEL);
+		ei->d_children = kcalloc(size, sizeof(*ei->d_children), GFP_KERNEL);
 		if (!ei->d_children)
 			goto fail;
 	}
--
2.25.1