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Message-ID: <cbf50038-4124-484d-b045-9090c5f9ab06@broadcom.com>
Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2024 17:21:13 -0800
From: Florian Fainelli <florian.fainelli@...adcom.com>
To: Erick Archer <erick.archer@....com>, Thomas Gleixner
 <tglx@...utronix.de>, "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@...nel.org>
Cc: linux-mips@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
 Broadcom internal kernel review list
 <bcm-kernel-feedback-list@...adcom.com>,
 linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] irqchip/irq-bcm7038-l1: Prefer struct_size over open
 coded arithmetic



On 2/9/2024 10:31 AM, Erick Archer wrote:
> This is an effort to get rid of all multiplications from allocation
> functions in order to prevent integer overflows [1].
> 
> As the cpu variable is a pointer to "struct bcm7038_l1_cpu" and this
> structure ends in a flexible array:
> 
> struct bcm7038_l1_cpu {
> 	void __iomem	*map_base;
> 	u32		mask_cache[];
> };
> 
> the preferred way in the kernel is to use the struct_size() helper to
> do the arithmetic instead of the argument "size + count * size" in the
> kzalloc() function.
> 
> This way, the code is more readable and more safer.
> 
> 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/162 [2]
> 
> Signed-off-by: Erick Archer <erick.archer@....com>

Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <florian.fainelli@...adcom.com>
-- 
Florian

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