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Subject[PATCH] scsi: advansys: Prefer struct_size over open coded arithmetic
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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, refactor the code a bit to use the struct_size() helper instead of
the argument "size + count * size" in the kzalloc() function.

[1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#open-coded-arithmetic-in-allocator-arguments

Signed-off-by: Len Baker <len.baker@gmx.com>
---
drivers/scsi/advansys.c | 5 +++--
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/scsi/advansys.c b/drivers/scsi/advansys.c
index ffb391967573..fe882502e7bf 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/advansys.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/advansys.c
@@ -7465,6 +7465,7 @@ static int asc_build_req(struct asc_board *boardp, struct scsi_cmnd *scp,
return ASC_BUSY;
} else if (use_sg > 0) {
int sgcnt;
+ size_t size;
struct scatterlist *slp;
struct asc_sg_head *asc_sg_head;

@@ -7477,8 +7478,8 @@ static int asc_build_req(struct asc_board *boardp, struct scsi_cmnd *scp,
return ASC_ERROR;
}

- asc_sg_head = kzalloc(sizeof(asc_scsi_q->sg_head) +
- use_sg * sizeof(struct asc_sg_list), GFP_ATOMIC);
+ size = struct_size(asc_scsi_q->sg_head, sg_list, use_sg);
+ asc_sg_head = kzalloc(size, GFP_ATOMIC);
if (!asc_sg_head) {
scsi_dma_unmap(scp);
set_host_byte(scp, DID_SOFT_ERROR);
--
2.25.1
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