writeback: prefer struct_size over open coded arithmetic
authorLen Baker <len.baker@gmx.com>
Sat, 25 Sep 2021 11:43:08 +0000 (13:43 +0200)
committerGustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>
Wed, 20 Oct 2021 23:20:28 +0000 (18:20 -0500)
commit98b160c828f312955daa94713a5fca595400b8c3
tree8767511bccbb8eb9c6478118b942f02a296bcc05
parentc2e4e3b75623dc835a2fe446db868e35c26dcaaf
writeback: prefer 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 these are not actually dynamic sizes: all the operands
involved in the calculation are constant values. However it is better to
refactor them 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 kzalloc() functions.

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-arguments

Signed-off-by: Len Baker <len.baker@gmx.com>
Reviewed-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>
fs/fs-writeback.c