From: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
To: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@kernel.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][next] usb: host: fotg210: Use struct_size() helper in kzalloc()
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2022 15:25:09 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <202201201524.F8A4377@keescook> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220120222043.GA33559@embeddedor>
On Thu, Jan 20, 2022 at 04:20:43PM -0600, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
> 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 worst scenario, could lead to heap overflows.
>
> Also, address the following sparse warnings:
> drivers/usb/host/fotg210-hcd.c:4017:20: warning: using sizeof on a flexible structure
>
> Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/174
> Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>
Good-bye more open-coded calculations. :)
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
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Kees Cook
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2022-01-20 22:20 [PATCH][next] usb: host: fotg210: Use struct_size() helper in kzalloc() Gustavo A. R. Silva
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