nl80211: prefer struct_size over open coded arithmetic
authorLen Baker <len.baker@gmx.com>
Sun, 19 Sep 2021 11:40:40 +0000 (13:40 +0200)
committerJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Thu, 23 Sep 2021 11:38:11 +0000 (13:38 +0200)
commit40f231e75a1d986a8f8705765e2c5c770370318c
treeb66a47a9a11c8d43748634f8091abbef5171c436
parent68ba1131d4b566dfad0b319a861552778a6cdfb8
nl80211: 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.

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

Also, take the opportunity to refactor the memcpy() call to use the
flex_array_size() helper.

[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>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210919114040.41522-1-len.baker@gmx.com
[remove unnecessary variable]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
net/wireless/nl80211.c