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Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2018 12:29:26 -0700
From: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@...rosoft.com>, Linux-MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Kernel Hardening <kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] Convert virtio_console to struct_size
On Thu, Jun 7, 2018 at 7:57 AM, Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org> wrote:
> From: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@...rosoft.com>
>
> Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@...rosoft.com>
> ---
> drivers/char/virtio_console.c | 3 +--
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/char/virtio_console.c b/drivers/char/virtio_console.c
> index 21085515814f..4bf7c06c2343 100644
> --- a/drivers/char/virtio_console.c
> +++ b/drivers/char/virtio_console.c
> @@ -433,8 +433,7 @@ static struct port_buffer *alloc_buf(struct virtio_device *vdev, size_t buf_size
> * Allocate buffer and the sg list. The sg list array is allocated
> * directly after the port_buffer struct.
> */
> - buf = kmalloc(sizeof(*buf) + sizeof(struct scatterlist) * pages,
> - GFP_KERNEL);
> + buf = kmalloc(struct_size(buf, sg, pages), GFP_KERNEL);
> if (!buf)
> goto fail;
I feel like this one should have been caught by Coccinelle... maybe
the transitive case got missed? Regardless, I'll figure out how to
improve the script and/or take these.
Thanks!
-Kees
--
Kees Cook
Pixel Security
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