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From: Loganaden Velvindron <logan@hackers.mu>
To: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] nf-next: x_tables: Replace kmalloc(s*n) with kmalloc_array(n,s)
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2016 18:11:51 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160810141146.GA22890@void> (raw)

It is easier to check that the calculation doesn't wrap or return a smaller
allocation.

Signed-off-by: Loganaden Velvindron <logan@hackers.mu>
---
 net/netfilter/x_tables.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/netfilter/x_tables.c b/net/netfilter/x_tables.c
index e0aa7c1..c8f20f2 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/x_tables.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/x_tables.c
@@ -1513,7 +1513,7 @@ xt_hook_ops_alloc(const struct xt_table *table, nf_hookfn *fn)
 	if (!num_hooks)
 		return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
 
-	ops = kmalloc(sizeof(*ops) * num_hooks, GFP_KERNEL);
+	ops = kmalloc_array(num_hooks, sizeof(*ops), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (ops == NULL)
 		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
 
-- 
2.9.2


             reply	other threads:[~2016-08-10 18:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-08-10 14:11 Loganaden Velvindron [this message]
2016-08-11 23:13 ` [PATCH] nf-next: x_tables: Replace kmalloc(s*n) with kmalloc_array(n,s) Pablo Neira Ayuso
2016-08-12  7:12   ` Loganaden Velvindron
2016-08-12  7:19   ` Loganaden Velvindron

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