* [PATCH][net-next] net/mlx5: Use struct_size() helper in kvzalloc()
@ 2021-09-28 22:11 Gustavo A. R. Silva
2021-09-30 19:06 ` Saeed Mahameed
0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Gustavo A. R. Silva @ 2021-09-28 22:11 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Saeed Mahameed, Leon Romanovsky, David S. Miller, Jakub Kicinski
Cc: netdev, linux-rdma, linux-kernel, Gustavo A. R. Silva, linux-hardening
Make use of the struct_size() helper instead of an open-coded version,
in order to avoid any potential type mistakes or integer overflows that,
in the worse scenario, could lead to heap overflows.
Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/160
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/fs_counters.c | 3 +--
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/fs_counters.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/fs_counters.c
index 18e5aec14641..f542a36be62c 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/fs_counters.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/fs_counters.c
@@ -497,8 +497,7 @@ static struct mlx5_fc_bulk *mlx5_fc_bulk_create(struct mlx5_core_dev *dev)
alloc_bitmask = MLX5_CAP_GEN(dev, flow_counter_bulk_alloc);
bulk_len = alloc_bitmask > 0 ? MLX5_FC_BULK_NUM_FCS(alloc_bitmask) : 1;
- bulk = kvzalloc(sizeof(*bulk) + bulk_len * sizeof(struct mlx5_fc),
- GFP_KERNEL);
+ bulk = kvzalloc(struct_size(bulk, fcs, bulk_len), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!bulk)
goto err_alloc_bulk;
--
2.27.0
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* Re: [PATCH][net-next] net/mlx5: Use struct_size() helper in kvzalloc()
2021-09-28 22:11 [PATCH][net-next] net/mlx5: Use struct_size() helper in kvzalloc() Gustavo A. R. Silva
@ 2021-09-30 19:06 ` Saeed Mahameed
2021-09-30 19:58 ` Gustavo A. R. Silva
0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Saeed Mahameed @ 2021-09-30 19:06 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: davem, kuba, gustavoars, leon
Cc: linux-hardening, netdev, linux-rdma, linux-kernel
On Tue, 2021-09-28 at 17:11 -0500, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
> Make use of the struct_size() helper instead of an open-coded
> version,
> in order to avoid any potential type mistakes or integer overflows
> that,
> in the worse scenario, could lead to heap overflows.
>
> Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/160
> Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>
applied to net-next-mlx5
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* Re: [PATCH][net-next] net/mlx5: Use struct_size() helper in kvzalloc()
2021-09-30 19:06 ` Saeed Mahameed
@ 2021-09-30 19:58 ` Gustavo A. R. Silva
0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Gustavo A. R. Silva @ 2021-09-30 19:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Saeed Mahameed
Cc: davem, kuba, leon, linux-hardening, netdev, linux-rdma, linux-kernel
On Thu, Sep 30, 2021 at 07:06:32PM +0000, Saeed Mahameed wrote:
> On Tue, 2021-09-28 at 17:11 -0500, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
> > Make use of the struct_size() helper instead of an open-coded
> > version,
> > in order to avoid any potential type mistakes or integer overflows
> > that,
> > in the worse scenario, could lead to heap overflows.
> >
> > Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/160
> > Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>
>
> applied to net-next-mlx5
Thanks, Saeed.
--
Gustavo
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