[PATCH v2] mtd: concat: Use kmemdup_array instead of kmemdup for multiple allocation

Yan Zhen yanzhen at vivo.com
Fri Aug 23 04:08:24 PDT 2024


When we are allocating an array, using kmemdup_array() to take care about
multiplication and possible overflows.

Also it makes auditing the code easier.

Signed-off-by: Yan Zhen <yanzhen at vivo.com>
---

Changes in v2:
- Rewrite the patch title and the patch description

 drivers/mtd/mtdconcat.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/mtd/mtdconcat.c b/drivers/mtd/mtdconcat.c
index 193428de6a4b..f56f44aa8625 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/mtdconcat.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/mtdconcat.c
@@ -204,7 +204,7 @@ concat_writev(struct mtd_info *mtd, const struct kvec *vecs,
 	}
 
 	/* make a copy of vecs */
-	vecs_copy = kmemdup(vecs, sizeof(struct kvec) * count, GFP_KERNEL);
+	vecs_copy = kmemdup_array(vecs, count, sizeof(struct kvec), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!vecs_copy)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
-- 
2.34.1




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