On Sat, 2024-03-30 at 17:55:35 UTC, Erick Archer wrote:
> This is an effort to get rid of all multiplications from allocation
> functions in order to prevent integer overflows [1][2].
>
> As the "info" variable is a pointer to "struct sa_info" and this
> structure ends in a flexible array:
>
> struct sa_info {
> [...]
> struct sa_subdev_info subdev[];
> };
>
> the preferred way in the kernel is to use the struct_size() helper to
> do the arithmetic instead of the calculation "size + size * count" in
> the kzalloc() function.
>
> This way, the code is more readable and safer.
>
> This code was detected with the help of Coccinelle, and audited and
> modified manually.
>
> 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.arc...@outlook.com>
Applied to https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mtd/linux.git
mtd/next, thanks.
Miquel
