staging/rtl8192u: Prefer kcalloc over open coded arithmetic
authorLen Baker <len.baker@gmx.com>
Tue, 24 Aug 2021 09:00:39 +0000 (11:00 +0200)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 26 Aug 2021 10:14:27 +0000 (12:14 +0200)
commit07e7f36da8abb4563d145399270c0b92f8d79ff7
treecf81a2804d51216f8ae48d769e5841d710f17dba
parentc4b30776bf2941e0d17d3f164e54e553b2456888
staging/rtl8192u: Prefer kcalloc over open coded arithmetic

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.

In this case these aren't actually dynamic sizes: both sides of the
multiplication are constant values. However it is best to refactor these
anyway, just to keep the open-coded math idiom out of code.

So, use the purpose specific kcalloc() function instead of the argument
size * count in the kzalloc() function.

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

Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Len Baker <len.baker@gmx.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210824090039.GA7999@titan
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/staging/rtl8192u/r819xU_phy.c