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From: Wolfram Sang <wsa@kernel.org>
To: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Cc: Peter Rosin <peda@axentia.se>,
	"Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@embeddedor.com>,
	linux-i2c@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] i2c: mux: harden i2c_mux_alloc() against integer overflows
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2022 22:13:10 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YytwVuLBo4pPHKEO@shikoro> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YyMM8iVSHJ4ammsg@kili>

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On Thu, Sep 15, 2022 at 02:30:58PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> A couple years back we went through the kernel an automatically
> converted size calculations to use struct_size() instead.  The
> struct_size() calculation is protected against integer overflows.
> 
> However it does not make sense to use the result from struct_size()
> for additional math operations as that would negate any safeness.
> 
> Fixes: 1f3b69b6b939 ("i2c: mux: Use struct_size() in devm_kzalloc()")
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>

Applied to for-current, thanks!


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      parent reply	other threads:[~2022-09-21 20:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-09-15 11:30 [PATCH] i2c: mux: harden i2c_mux_alloc() against integer overflows Dan Carpenter
2022-09-15 13:36 ` Peter Rosin
2022-09-15 13:51 ` Gustavo A. R. Silva
2022-09-15 14:09   ` Dan Carpenter
2022-09-16  8:07     ` Kees Cook
2022-09-16  8:23       ` Dan Carpenter
2022-09-16 13:31         ` Kees Cook
2022-09-16 14:55           ` Dan Carpenter
2022-09-16 21:31             ` Kees Cook
2022-09-16  8:01 ` Kees Cook
2022-09-16  8:20   ` Dan Carpenter
2022-09-16 19:31     ` Wolfram Sang
2022-09-19  6:35       ` Dan Carpenter
2022-09-21 20:13 ` Wolfram Sang [this message]

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