[PATCH] Input: ff-core - prefer struct_size over open coded arithmetic

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This is an effort to get rid of all multiplications from allocation
functions in order to prevent integer overflows [1][2].

As the "ff" variable is a pointer to "struct ff_device" and this
structure ends in a flexible array:

struct ff_device {
	[...]
	struct file *effect_owners[] __counted_by(max_effects);
};

the preferred way in the kernel is to use the struct_size() helper to
do the arithmetic instead of the calculation "size + count * size" in
the kzalloc() function.

The struct_size() helper returns SIZE_MAX on overflow. So, refactor
the comparison to take advantage of this.

This way, the code is more readable and safer.

This code was detected with the help of Coccinelle, and audited and
modified manually.

Link: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#open-coded-arithmetic-in-allocator-arguments [1]
Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/160 [2]
Signed-off-by: Erick Archer <erick.archer@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Hi,

The Coccinelle script used to detect this code pattern is the following:

virtual report

@rule1@
type t1;
type t2;
identifier i0;
identifier i1;
identifier i2;
identifier ALLOC =~ "kmalloc|kzalloc|kmalloc_node|kzalloc_node|vmalloc|vzalloc|kvmalloc|kvzalloc";
position p1;
@@

i0 = sizeof(t1) + sizeof(t2) * i1;
...
i2 = ALLOC@p1(..., i0, ...);

@script:python depends on report@
p1 << rule1.p1;
@@

msg = "WARNING: verify allocation on line %s" % (p1[0].line)
coccilib.report.print_report(p1[0],msg)

Regards,
Erick
---
 drivers/input/ff-core.c | 7 ++++---
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/input/ff-core.c b/drivers/input/ff-core.c
index 16231fe080b0..609a5f01761b 100644
--- a/drivers/input/ff-core.c
+++ b/drivers/input/ff-core.c
@@ -9,8 +9,10 @@
 /* #define DEBUG */
 
 #include <linux/input.h>
+#include <linux/limits.h>
 #include <linux/module.h>
 #include <linux/mutex.h>
+#include <linux/overflow.h>
 #include <linux/sched.h>
 #include <linux/slab.h>
 
@@ -315,9 +317,8 @@ int input_ff_create(struct input_dev *dev, unsigned int max_effects)
 		return -EINVAL;
 	}
 
-	ff_dev_size = sizeof(struct ff_device) +
-				max_effects * sizeof(struct file *);
-	if (ff_dev_size < max_effects) /* overflow */
+	ff_dev_size = struct_size(ff, effect_owners, max_effects);
+	if (ff_dev_size == SIZE_MAX) /* overflow */
 		return -EINVAL;
 
 	ff = kzalloc(ff_dev_size, GFP_KERNEL);
-- 
2.25.1





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