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 + size * count" in the kzalloc() function. [1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#open-coded-arithmetic-in-allocator-arguments Signed-off-by: Len Baker <len.baker@xxxxxxx> --- fs/aio.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/aio.c b/fs/aio.c index 51b08ab01dff..c2978c0b872c 100644 --- a/fs/aio.c +++ b/fs/aio.c @@ -659,8 +659,7 @@ static int ioctx_add_table(struct kioctx *ctx, struct mm_struct *mm) new_nr = (table ? table->nr : 1) * 4; spin_unlock(&mm->ioctx_lock); - table = kzalloc(sizeof(*table) + sizeof(struct kioctx *) * - new_nr, GFP_KERNEL); + table = kzalloc(struct_size(table, table, new_nr), GFP_KERNEL); if (!table) return -ENOMEM; -- 2.25.1
