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    nvmet: use struct_size over open coded arithmetic · 117d5b6d
    Len Baker authored
    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.
    
    In this case this is not actually dynamic size: all the operands
    involved in the calculation are constant values. However it is better to
    refactor this anyway, just to keep the open-coded math idiom out of
    code.
    
    So, use the struct_size() helper to do the arithmetic instead of the
    argument "size + count * size" in the kmalloc() function.
    
    This code was detected with the help of Coccinelle and audited and fixed
    manually.
    
    [1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#open-coded-arithmetic-in-allocator-argumentsSigned-off-by: default avatarLen Baker <len.baker@gmx.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
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