Re: [PATCH 0/2] Add kvzalloc_struct to complement kvzalloc_array

[Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>]

On Wed, 2018-02-14 at 11:23 -0800, Kees Cook wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 10:47 AM, Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2018-02-14 at 10:26 -0800, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > > From: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@microsoft.com>
> > > 
> > > We all know the perils of multiplying a value provided from userspace
> > > by a constant and then allocating the resulting number of bytes.  That's
> > > why we have kvmalloc_array(), so we don't have to think about it.
> > > This solves the same problem when we embed one of these arrays in a
> > > struct like this:
> > > 
> > > struct {
> > >       int n;
> > >       unsigned long array[];
> > > };
> > 
> > I think expanding the number of allocation functions
> > is not necessary.
> 
> I think removing common mispatterns in favor of overflow-protected
> allocation functions makes sense.

Function symmetry matters too.

These allocation functions are specific to kvz<foo>
and are not symmetric for k<foo>, v<foo>, devm_<foo>
<foo>_node, and the like.