From: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>
To: "Len Baker" <len.baker@gmx.com>,
"KY Srinivasan" <kys@microsoft.com>,
"Stephen Hemminger" <sthemmin@microsoft.com>,
"Wei Liu" <wei.liu@kernel.org>,
"Dexuan Cui" <decui@microsoft.com>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
"Jakub Kicinski" <kuba@kernel.org>,
"Sumit Semwal" <sumit.semwal@linaro.org>,
"Christian König" <christian.koenig@amd.com>,
"Kees Cook" <keescook@chromium.org>
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Subject: RE: [PATCH] net: mana: Prefer struct_size over open coded arithmetic
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2021 13:36:05 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <MN2PR21MB12950F1132B8F4DB41BF3778CAD79@MN2PR21MB1295.namprd21.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210911102818.3804-1-len.baker@gmx.com>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Len Baker <len.baker@gmx.com>
> Sent: Saturday, September 11, 2021 6:28 AM
> To: KY Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>; Haiyang Zhang
> <haiyangz@microsoft.com>; Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@microsoft.com>;
> Wei Liu <wei.liu@kernel.org>; Dexuan Cui <decui@microsoft.com>; David S.
> Miller <davem@davemloft.net>; Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>; Sumit
> Semwal <sumit.semwal@linaro.org>; Christian König
> <christian.koenig@amd.com>; Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
> Cc: Len Baker <len.baker@gmx.com>; Colin Ian King
> <colin.king@canonical.com>; linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org; linux-
> hyperv@vger.kernel.org; netdev@vger.kernel.org; linux-
> kernel@vger.kernel.org; linux-media@vger.kernel.org; dri-
> devel@lists.freedesktop.org; linaro-mm-sig@lists.linaro.org
> Subject: [PATCH] net: mana: Prefer struct_size over open coded
> arithmetic
>
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> 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() function.
>
> [1]
> https://nam06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ke
> rnel.org%2Fdoc%2Fhtml%2Fv5.14%2Fprocess%2Fdeprecated.html%23open-coded-
> arithmetic-in-allocator-
> arguments&data=04%7C01%7Chaiyangz%40microsoft.com%7C1bf83c1204a34dae
> a6d308d9750eef16%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C6376695297
> 12931146%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJ
> BTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=PbYpBtyYfVfwwlxWSQx%2FiARc9
> mhb0J7bfD46%2F9q5oTw%3D&reserved=0
>
> Signed-off-by: Len Baker <len.baker@gmx.com>
> ---
> drivers/net/ethernet/microsoft/mana/hw_channel.c | 4 +---
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/microsoft/mana/hw_channel.c
> b/drivers/net/ethernet/microsoft/mana/hw_channel.c
> index 1a923fd99990..0efdc6c3c32a 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/microsoft/mana/hw_channel.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/microsoft/mana/hw_channel.c
> @@ -398,9 +398,7 @@ static int mana_hwc_alloc_dma_buf(struct
> hw_channel_context *hwc, u16 q_depth,
> int err;
> u16 i;
>
> - dma_buf = kzalloc(sizeof(*dma_buf) +
> - q_depth * sizeof(struct hwc_work_request),
> - GFP_KERNEL);
> + dma_buf = kzalloc(struct_size(dma_buf, reqs, q_depth),
> GFP_KERNEL);
Thanks!
Reviewed-by: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-09-11 13:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-09-11 10:28 [PATCH] net: mana: Prefer struct_size over open coded arithmetic Len Baker
2021-09-11 13:36 ` Haiyang Zhang [this message]
2021-09-18 13:20 ` Len Baker
2021-09-18 13:51 ` Kees Cook
2021-09-18 17:11 ` Len Baker
2021-09-18 17:06 ` Dexuan Cui
2021-09-19 8:27 ` Len Baker
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