[PATCH] mtd: cfi: use struct_size() helper for cfiq allocation

Raghavendra, Vignesh vigneshr at ti.com
Sun Sep 21 23:00:08 PDT 2025



On 9/19/2025 12:14 AM, Gopi Krishna Menon wrote:
> 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 at gmail.com>
> ---
>  drivers/mtd/chips/cfi_probe.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/mtd/chips/cfi_probe.c b/drivers/mtd/chips/cfi_probe.c
> index a04b6174181c..e254f9cd2796 100644
> --- a/drivers/mtd/chips/cfi_probe.c
> +++ b/drivers/mtd/chips/cfi_probe.c
> @@ -208,7 +208,7 @@ static int __xipram cfi_chip_setup(struct map_info *map,
>  	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;
> 

Reviewed-by: Vignesh Raghavendra <vigneshr at ti.com>

There seems to be one more occurrence of this pattern in jedec_probe.c.
Would appreciate if you could fix that too. Thanks!

Regards
Vignesh



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