[PATCH][next] dmaengine: stm32-mdma: Use struct_size() helper in devm_kzalloc()

Gustavo A. R. Silva gustavoars at kernel.org
Wed Sep 29 15:29:22 PDT 2021


Make use of the struct_size() helper instead of an open-coded version,
in order to avoid any potential type mistakes or integer overflows that,
in the worse scenario, could lead to heap overflows.

Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/160
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars at kernel.org>
---
 drivers/dma/stm32-mdma.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/dma/stm32-mdma.c b/drivers/dma/stm32-mdma.c
index 18cbd1e43c2e..d30a4a28d3bf 100644
--- a/drivers/dma/stm32-mdma.c
+++ b/drivers/dma/stm32-mdma.c
@@ -1566,7 +1566,8 @@ static int stm32_mdma_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 	if (count < 0)
 		count = 0;
 
-	dmadev = devm_kzalloc(&pdev->dev, sizeof(*dmadev) + sizeof(u32) * count,
+	dmadev = devm_kzalloc(&pdev->dev,
+			      struct_size(dmadev, ahb_addr_masks, count),
 			      GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!dmadev)
 		return -ENOMEM;
-- 
2.27.0




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