On Sun, Jan 15, 2017 at 9:56 AM, SF Markus Elfring
<elfring@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Markus Elfring <elfring@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2017 10:48:28 +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.
>
> * Replace the specification of a data type by a pointer dereference
> to make the corresponding size determination a bit safer according to
> the Linux coding style convention.
>
> Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> security/selinux/ss/conditional.c | 5 +++--
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
Merged, thanks. Sorry for the delay.
> diff --git a/security/selinux/ss/conditional.c b/security/selinux/ss/conditional.c
> index 34afeadd9e73..fcfab2635c11 100644
> --- a/security/selinux/ss/conditional.c
> +++ b/security/selinux/ss/conditional.c
> @@ -176,8 +176,9 @@ void cond_policydb_destroy(struct policydb *p)
> int cond_init_bool_indexes(struct policydb *p)
> {
> kfree(p->bool_val_to_struct);
> - p->bool_val_to_struct =
> - kmalloc(p->p_bools.nprim * sizeof(struct cond_bool_datum *), GFP_KERNEL);
> + p->bool_val_to_struct = kmalloc_array(p->p_bools.nprim,
> + sizeof(*p->bool_val_to_struct),
> + GFP_KERNEL);
> if (!p->bool_val_to_struct)
> return -ENOMEM;
> return 0;
> --
> 2.11.0
>
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