Commit 117d5b6d authored by Len Baker's avatar Len Baker Committed by Christoph Hellwig

nvmet: use 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.

In this case this is not actually dynamic size: all the operands
involved in the calculation are constant values. However it is better to
refactor this anyway, just to keep the open-coded math idiom out of
code.

So, use the struct_size() helper to do the arithmetic instead of the
argument "size + count * size" in the kmalloc() function.

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

[1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#open-coded-arithmetic-in-allocator-argumentsSigned-off-by: default avatarLen Baker <len.baker@gmx.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
parent 2b81a5f0
......@@ -278,8 +278,8 @@ static void nvmet_execute_get_log_page_ana(struct nvmet_req *req)
u16 status;
status = NVME_SC_INTERNAL;
desc = kmalloc(sizeof(struct nvme_ana_group_desc) +
NVMET_MAX_NAMESPACES * sizeof(__le32), GFP_KERNEL);
desc = kmalloc(struct_size(desc, nsids, NVMET_MAX_NAMESPACES),
GFP_KERNEL);
if (!desc)
goto out;
......
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