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dmaengine: pxa_dma: Prefer struct_size 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. So, use the struct_size() helper to do the arithmetic instead of the argument "size + count * size" in the kzalloc() function. [1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#open-coded-arithmetic-in-allocator-arguments Signed-off-by: Len Baker <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <[email protected]>
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drivers/dma/pxa_dma.c

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@@ -742,8 +742,7 @@ pxad_alloc_desc(struct pxad_chan *chan, unsigned int nb_hw_desc)
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dma_addr_t dma;
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int i;
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sw_desc = kzalloc(sizeof(*sw_desc) +
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nb_hw_desc * sizeof(struct pxad_desc_hw *),
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sw_desc = kzalloc(struct_size(sw_desc, hw_desc, nb_hw_desc),
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GFP_NOWAIT);
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if (!sw_desc)
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return NULL;

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