linux-kernel - [PATCH] memstick: jmb38x_ms: Prefer struct

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Message-Id: <20210911131933.2089-1-len.baker@gmx.com>
Date:   Sat, 11 Sep 2021 15:19:33 +0200
From:   Len Baker <len.baker@....com>
To:     Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@...il.com>,
        Alex Dubov <oakad@...oo.com>,
        Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@...aro.org>
Cc:     Len Baker <len.baker@....com>, Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Tom Rix <trix@...hat.com>, linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-mmc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] memstick: jmb38x_ms: 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 + 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@....com>
---
 drivers/memstick/host/jmb38x_ms.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/memstick/host/jmb38x_ms.c b/drivers/memstick/host/jmb38x_ms.c
index f9a93b0565e1..a7a0f0caea15 100644
--- a/drivers/memstick/host/jmb38x_ms.c
+++ b/drivers/memstick/host/jmb38x_ms.c
@@ -927,8 +927,7 @@ static int jmb38x_ms_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev,
 		goto err_out_int;
 	}

-	jm = kzalloc(sizeof(struct jmb38x_ms)
-		     + cnt * sizeof(struct memstick_host *), GFP_KERNEL);
+	jm = kzalloc(struct_size(jm, hosts, cnt), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!jm) {
 		rc = -ENOMEM;
 		goto err_out_int;
--
2.25.1