Documentation/process/deprecated.rst recommends against performing
dynamic size calculations in the arguments of memory allocator
function due to the risk of overflow. Such calculations can
wrap around and result in a smaller allocation than what the caller
was expecting.
Replace the size calculation in cfiq allocation with struct_size()
helper to make the code clearer and handle the overflows correctly.
Signed-off-by: Gopi Krishna Menon <krishnagopi487@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Vignesh Raghavendra <vigneshr@ti.com>
link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-kernel-mentees/20250922071137.900508-1-rk0006818@gmail.com/T/#u
Signed-off-by: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>
if (!num_erase_regions)
return 0;
- cfi->cfiq = kmalloc(sizeof(struct cfi_ident) + num_erase_regions * 4, GFP_KERNEL);
+ cfi->cfiq = kmalloc(struct_size(cfi->cfiq, EraseRegionInfo, num_erase_regions), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!cfi->cfiq)
return 0;