wifi: at76c50x: 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 "cmd_buf" variable is a pointer to "struct at76_command" and this structure ends in a flexible array: struct at76_command { [...] u8 data[]; } __packed; the preferred way in the kernel is to use the struct_size() helper to do the arithmetic instead of the calculation "size + count" in the kmalloc() function. Also, declare a new variable (total_size) since the return value of the struct_size() helper is used several times. At the same time, prepare for the coming implementation by GCC and Clang of the __counted_by attribute. Flexible array members annotated with __counted_by can have their accesses bounds-checked at run-time via CONFIG_UBSAN_BOUNDS (for array indexing) and CONFIG_FORTIFY_SOURCE (for strcpy/memcpy-family functions). In this case, it is important to note that the attribute used is "__counted_by_le" since the counter type is "__le16". This way, the code is more readable and 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/160 [2] Signed-off-by: Erick Archer <erick.archer@outlook.com> Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@kernel.org> Link: https://msgid.link/AS8PR02MB7237578654CEDDFE5F8C17BA8BFE2@AS8PR02MB7237.eurprd02.prod.outlook.com
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