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@ 2021-09-29 20:17 Gustavo A. R. Silva
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From: Gustavo A. R. Silva @ 2021-09-29 20:17 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Stephen Hemminger, Jamal Hadi Salim, Cong Wang, Jiri Pirko,
David S. Miller, Jakub Kicinski
Cc: netdev, linux-kernel, Gustavo A. R. Silva, linux-hardening
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.
Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/160
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>
---
net/sched/sch_netem.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/net/sched/sch_netem.c b/net/sched/sch_netem.c
index 0c345e43a09a..ecbb10db1111 100644
--- a/net/sched/sch_netem.c
+++ b/net/sched/sch_netem.c
@@ -785,7 +785,7 @@ static int get_dist_table(struct Qdisc *sch, struct disttable **tbl,
if (!n || n > NETEM_DIST_MAX)
return -EINVAL;
- d = kvmalloc(sizeof(struct disttable) + n * sizeof(s16), GFP_KERNEL);
+ d = kvmalloc(struct_size(d, table, n), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!d)
return -ENOMEM;
--
2.27.0
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