Make use of the struct_size() helper instead of an open-coded version, in order to avoid any potential type mistakes or integer overflows that, in the worst scenario, could lead to heap overflows. Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/160 Signed-off-by: Wang Weiyang <wangweiyang2@xxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/memcontrol.c | 6 +----- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c index 54afa29145e8..ec4b677cdcad 100644 --- a/mm/memcontrol.c +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c @@ -5129,15 +5129,11 @@ static void mem_cgroup_free(struct mem_cgroup *memcg) static struct mem_cgroup *mem_cgroup_alloc(void) { struct mem_cgroup *memcg; - unsigned int size; int node; int __maybe_unused i; long error = -ENOMEM; - size = sizeof(struct mem_cgroup); - size += nr_node_ids * sizeof(struct mem_cgroup_per_node *); - - memcg = kzalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL); + memcg = kzalloc(struct_size(memcg, nodeinfo, nr_node_ids), GFP_KERNEL); if (!memcg) return ERR_PTR(error); -- 2.17.1