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aio: Prefer struct_size over open coded arithmetic

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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 + size * count" in the kzalloc() function.

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

Signed-off-by: Len Baker <len.baker@gmx.com>
Reviewed-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>
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Len Baker 2021-09-19 11:45:39 +02:00 committed by Gustavo A. R. Silva
parent 98b160c828
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@ -659,8 +659,7 @@ static int ioctx_add_table(struct kioctx *ctx, struct mm_struct *mm)
new_nr = (table ? table->nr : 1) * 4;
spin_unlock(&mm->ioctx_lock);
table = kzalloc(sizeof(*table) + sizeof(struct kioctx *) *
new_nr, GFP_KERNEL);
table = kzalloc(struct_size(table, table, new_nr), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!table)
return -ENOMEM;