From: Markus Elfring <elfring@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2017 12:06:13 +0100
A multiplication for the size determination of a memory allocation
indicated that an array data structure should be processed.
Thus use the corresponding function "kmalloc_array".
This issue was detected by using the Coccinelle software.
Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
security/selinux/ss/hashtab.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/security/selinux/ss/hashtab.c b/security/selinux/ss/hashtab.c
index 2cc496149842..dc99fff64ecb 100644
--- a/security/selinux/ss/hashtab.c
+++ b/security/selinux/ss/hashtab.c
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ struct hashtab *hashtab_create(u32 (*hash_value)(struct hashtab *h, const void *
p->nel = 0;
p->hash_value = hash_value;
p->keycmp = keycmp;
- p->htable = kmalloc(sizeof(*(p->htable)) * size, GFP_KERNEL);
+ p->htable = kmalloc_array(size, sizeof(*p->htable), GFP_KERNEL);
if (p->htable == NULL) {
kfree(p);
return NULL;
--
2.11.0
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