linux-hardening - [PATCH] mtd: maps: sa1100-flash: Prefer struct

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Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2024 18:55:35 +0100
From: Erick Archer <erick.archer@...look.com>
To: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@...tlin.com>,
	Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>,
	Vignesh Raghavendra <vigneshr@...com>,
	Tudor Ambarus <tudor.ambarus@...aro.org>,
	Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
	"Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@...nel.org>
Cc: Erick Archer <erick.archer@...look.com>,
	linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] mtd: maps: sa1100-flash: Prefer struct_size over open coded arithmetic

This is an effort to get rid of all multiplications from allocation
functions in order to prevent integer overflows [1][2].

As the "info" variable is a pointer to "struct sa_info" and this
structure ends in a flexible array:

struct sa_info {
	[...]
	struct sa_subdev_info	subdev[];
};

the preferred way in the kernel is to use the struct_size() helper to
do the arithmetic instead of the calculation "size + size * count" in
the kzalloc() function.

This way, the code is more readable and safer.

This code was detected with the help of Coccinelle, and audited and
modified manually.

Link: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#open-coded-arithmetic-in-allocator-arguments [1]
Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/160 [2]
Signed-off-by: Erick Archer <erick.archer@...look.com>
---
Hi,

The Coccinelle script used to detect this code pattern is the following:

virtual report

@rule1@
type t1;
type t2;
identifier i0;
identifier i1;
identifier i2;
identifier ALLOC =~ "kmalloc|kzalloc|kmalloc_node|kzalloc_node|vmalloc|vzalloc|kvmalloc|kvzalloc";
position p1;
@@

i0 = sizeof(t1) + sizeof(t2) * i1;
...
i2 = ALLOC@p1(..., i0, ...);

@script:python depends on report@
p1 << rule1.p1;
@@

msg = "WARNING: verify allocation on line %s" % (p1[0].line)
coccilib.report.print_report(p1[0],msg)

Regards,
Erick
---
 drivers/mtd/maps/sa1100-flash.c | 6 ++----
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/mtd/maps/sa1100-flash.c b/drivers/mtd/maps/sa1100-flash.c
index d4ce2376d33f..ac8a0a19a021 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/maps/sa1100-flash.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/maps/sa1100-flash.c
@@ -153,7 +153,7 @@ static struct sa_info *sa1100_setup_mtd(struct platform_device *pdev,
 					struct flash_platform_data *plat)
 {
 	struct sa_info *info;
-	int nr, size, i, ret = 0;
+	int nr, i, ret = 0;
 
 	/*
 	 * Count number of devices.
@@ -167,12 +167,10 @@ static struct sa_info *sa1100_setup_mtd(struct platform_device *pdev,
 		goto out;
 	}
 
-	size = sizeof(struct sa_info) + sizeof(struct sa_subdev_info) * nr;
-
 	/*
 	 * Allocate the map_info structs in one go.
 	 */
-	info = kzalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
+	info = kzalloc(struct_size(info, subdev, nr), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!info) {
 		ret = -ENOMEM;
 		goto out;
-- 
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