This is an effort to get rid of all multiplications from allocation functions in order to prevent integer overflows [1][2]. As the "ids" variable is a pointer to "struct sctp_assoc_ids" and this structure ends in a flexible array: struct sctp_assoc_ids { [...] sctp_assoc_t gaids_assoc_id[]; }; the preferred way in the kernel is to use the struct_size() helper to do the arithmetic instead of the calculation "size + size * count" in the kmalloc() function. Also, refactor the code adding the "ids_size" variable to avoid sizing twice. 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 --- net/sctp/socket.c | 7 ++++--- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/sctp/socket.c b/net/sctp/socket.c index e416b6d3d270..64196b1dce1d 100644 --- a/net/sctp/socket.c +++ b/net/sctp/socket.c @@ -7119,6 +7119,7 @@ static int sctp_getsockopt_assoc_ids(struct sock *sk, int len, struct sctp_sock *sp = sctp_sk(sk); struct sctp_association *asoc; struct sctp_assoc_ids *ids; + size_t ids_size; u32 num = 0; if (sctp_style(sk, TCP)) @@ -7131,11 +7132,11 @@ static int sctp_getsockopt_assoc_ids(struct sock *sk, int len, num++; } - if (len < sizeof(struct sctp_assoc_ids) + sizeof(sctp_assoc_t) * num) + ids_size = struct_size(ids, gaids_assoc_id, num); + if (len < ids_size) return -EINVAL; - len = sizeof(struct sctp_assoc_ids) + sizeof(sctp_assoc_t) * num; - + len = ids_size; ids = kmalloc(len, GFP_USER | __GFP_NOWARN); if (unlikely(!ids)) return -ENOMEM; -- 2.25.1