This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
eventfs: Use kcalloc() instead of kzalloc()
to the 6.7-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
eventfs-use-kcalloc-instead-of-kzalloc.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.7 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From SRS0=eEWY=JP=rostedt.homelinux.com=rostedt@xxxxxxxxxx Tue Feb 6 12:33:32 2024
From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2024 06:32:08 -0500
Subject: eventfs: Use kcalloc() instead of kzalloc()
To: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>, Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx>, Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx>, Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, Erick Archer <erick.archer@xxxxxxx>, "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@xxxxxxxxxx>
Message-ID: <20240206113359.716264689@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
From: Erick Archer <erick.archer@xxxxxxx>
commit 1057066009c4325bb1d8430c9274894d0860e7c3 upstream.
As noted in the "Deprecated Interfaces, Language Features, Attributes,
and Conventions" documentation [1], size calculations (especially
multiplication) should not be performed in memory allocator (or similar)
function arguments due to the risk of them overflowing. This could lead
to values wrapping around and a smaller allocation being made than the
caller was expecting. Using those allocations could lead to linear
overflows of heap memory and other misbehaviors.
So, use the purpose specific kcalloc() function instead of the argument
size * count in the kzalloc() function.
[1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/next/process/deprecated.html#open-coded-arithmetic-in-allocator-arguments
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20240115181658.4562-1-erick.archer@xxxxxxx
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx>
Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/162
Signed-off-by: Erick Archer <erick.archer@xxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/tracefs/event_inode.c | 6 +++---
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
--- a/fs/tracefs/event_inode.c
+++ b/fs/tracefs/event_inode.c
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ static int eventfs_set_attr(struct mnt_i
/* Preallocate the children mode array if necessary */
if (!(dentry->d_inode->i_mode & S_IFDIR)) {
if (!ei->entry_attrs) {
- ei->entry_attrs = kzalloc(sizeof(*ei->entry_attrs) * ei->nr_entries,
+ ei->entry_attrs = kcalloc(ei->nr_entries, sizeof(*ei->entry_attrs),
GFP_NOFS);
if (!ei->entry_attrs) {
ret = -ENOMEM;
@@ -836,7 +836,7 @@ struct eventfs_inode *eventfs_create_dir
}
if (size) {
- ei->d_children = kzalloc(sizeof(*ei->d_children) * size, GFP_KERNEL);
+ ei->d_children = kcalloc(size, sizeof(*ei->d_children), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!ei->d_children) {
kfree_const(ei->name);
kfree(ei);
@@ -903,7 +903,7 @@ struct eventfs_inode *eventfs_create_eve
goto fail;
if (size) {
- ei->d_children = kzalloc(sizeof(*ei->d_children) * size, GFP_KERNEL);
+ ei->d_children = kcalloc(size, sizeof(*ei->d_children), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!ei->d_children)
goto fail;
}
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from rostedt@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-6.7/eventfs-keep-all-directory-links-at-1.patch
queue-6.7/eventfs-save-directory-inodes-in-the-eventfs_inode-structure.patch
queue-6.7/tracefs-zero-out-the-tracefs_inode-when-allocating-it.patch
queue-6.7/eventfs-read-ei-entries-before-ei-children-in-eventfs_iterate.patch
queue-6.7/eventfs-remove-lookup-parameter-from-create_dir-file_dentry.patch
queue-6.7/eventfs-remove-fsnotify-functions-from-lookup.patch
queue-6.7/eventfs-stop-using-dcache_readdir-for-getdents.patch
queue-6.7/tracefs-avoid-using-the-ei-dentry-pointer-unnecessarily.patch
queue-6.7/eventfs-initialize-the-tracefs-inode-properly.patch
queue-6.7/eventfs-do-ctx-pos-update-for-all-iterations-in-eventfs_iterate.patch
queue-6.7/tracefs-dentry-lookup-crapectomy.patch
queue-6.7/eventfs-have-the-inodes-all-for-files-and-directories-all-be-the-same.patch
queue-6.7/eventfs-use-kcalloc-instead-of-kzalloc.patch
queue-6.7/eventfs-shortcut-eventfs_iterate-by-skipping-entries-already-read.patch
queue-6.7/eventfs-do-not-create-dentries-nor-inodes-in-iterate_shared.patch
queue-6.7/eventfs-have-eventfs_iterate-stop-immediately-if-ei-is_freed-is-set.patch
queue-6.7/eventfs-restructure-eventfs_inode-structure-to-be-more-condensed.patch
queue-6.7/eventfs-warn-if-an-eventfs_inode-is-freed-without-is_freed-being-set.patch
queue-6.7/eventfs-get-rid-of-dentry-pointers-without-refcounts.patch
queue-6.7/eventfs-remove-unused-d_parent-pointer-field.patch
queue-6.7/eventfs-clean-up-dentry-ops-and-add-revalidate-function.patch
