Messages in this thread | | | From | "Martin K. Petersen" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2] scsi: advansys: Prefer struct_size over open coded arithmetic | Date | Tue, 5 Oct 2021 00:34:38 -0400 |
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On Sat, 25 Sep 2021 13:42:05 +0200, Len Baker wrote:
> 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. > > [...]
Applied to 5.16/scsi-queue, thanks!
[1/1] scsi: advansys: Prefer struct_size over open coded arithmetic https://git.kernel.org/mkp/scsi/c/568778f5572a
-- Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering
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