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* [PATCH][next] apparmor: Use struct_size() helper in kzalloc()
@ 2021-09-29 22:05 Gustavo A. R. Silva
  2021-10-01 23:37 ` John Johansen
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Gustavo A. R. Silva @ 2021-09-29 22:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: John Johansen, James Morris, Serge E. Hallyn
  Cc: linux-security-module, 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>
---
 security/apparmor/label.c  | 3 +--
 security/apparmor/policy.c | 3 +--
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/security/apparmor/label.c b/security/apparmor/label.c
index 6222fdfebe4e..0b0265da1926 100644
--- a/security/apparmor/label.c
+++ b/security/apparmor/label.c
@@ -425,8 +425,7 @@ struct aa_label *aa_label_alloc(int size, struct aa_proxy *proxy, gfp_t gfp)
 	AA_BUG(size < 1);
 
 	/*  + 1 for null terminator entry on vec */
-	new = kzalloc(sizeof(*new) + sizeof(struct aa_profile *) * (size + 1),
-			gfp);
+	new = kzalloc(struct_size(new, vec, size + 1), gfp);
 	AA_DEBUG("%s (%p)\n", __func__, new);
 	if (!new)
 		goto fail;
diff --git a/security/apparmor/policy.c b/security/apparmor/policy.c
index 17191a9eae41..5827dbdfbfca 100644
--- a/security/apparmor/policy.c
+++ b/security/apparmor/policy.c
@@ -260,8 +260,7 @@ struct aa_profile *aa_alloc_profile(const char *hname, struct aa_proxy *proxy,
 	struct aa_profile *profile;
 
 	/* freed by free_profile - usually through aa_put_profile */
-	profile = kzalloc(sizeof(*profile) + sizeof(struct aa_profile *) * 2,
-			  gfp);
+	profile = kzalloc(struct_size(profile, label.vec, 2), gfp);
 	if (!profile)
 		return NULL;
 
-- 
2.27.0


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