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* [PATCH] perf/x86/rapl: Prefer struct_size over open coded arithmetic
@ 2024-03-17 16:44 Erick Archer
  2024-03-17 20:14 ` Gustavo A. R. Silva
  2024-03-18 23:40 ` Kees Cook
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Erick Archer @ 2024-03-17 16:44 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Peter Zijlstra, Ingo Molnar, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo,
	Namhyung Kim, Mark Rutland, Alexander Shishkin, Jiri Olsa,
	Ian Rogers, Adrian Hunter, Thomas Gleixner, Borislav Petkov,
	Dave Hansen, H. Peter Anvin, Kees Cook, Gustavo A. R. Silva
  Cc: Erick Archer, x86, linux-perf-users, linux-kernel,
	linux-hardening

This is an effort to get rid of all multiplications from allocation
functions in order to prevent integer overflows [1][2].

As the "rapl_pmus" variable is a pointer to "struct rapl_pmus" and
this structure ends in a flexible array:

struct rapl_pmus {
	[...]
	struct rapl_pmu *pmus[] __counted_by(maxdie);
};

the preferred way in the kernel is to use the struct_size() helper to
do the arithmetic instead of the calculation "size + count * size" in
the kzalloc() function.

This way, the code is more readable and safer.

Link: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#open-coded-arithmetic-in-allocator-arguments [1]
Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/160 [2]
Signed-off-by: Erick Archer <erick.archer@gmx.com>
---
 arch/x86/events/rapl.c | 4 +---
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/events/rapl.c b/arch/x86/events/rapl.c
index fb2b1961e5a3..8ef08b5d55a7 100644
--- a/arch/x86/events/rapl.c
+++ b/arch/x86/events/rapl.c
@@ -675,10 +675,8 @@ static const struct attribute_group *rapl_attr_update[] = {
 static int __init init_rapl_pmus(void)
 {
 	int maxdie = topology_max_packages() * topology_max_dies_per_package();
-	size_t size;

-	size = sizeof(*rapl_pmus) + maxdie * sizeof(struct rapl_pmu *);
-	rapl_pmus = kzalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
+	rapl_pmus = kzalloc(struct_size(rapl_pmus, pmus, maxdie), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!rapl_pmus)
 		return -ENOMEM;

--
2.25.1


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