Hi everyone,
On Sat, Mar 30, 2024 at 03:32:59PM +0100, 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 "box" variable is a pointer to "struct intel_uncore_box" and
> this structure ends in a flexible array:
>
> struct intel_uncore_box {
> [...]
> struct intel_uncore_extra_reg shared_regs[];
> };
>
> the preferred way in the kernel is to use the struct_size() helper to
> do the arithmetic instead of the calculation "size + count * size" in
> the kzalloc_node() 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 <[email protected]>
How could this patch be accepted?
Thanks,
Erick
