[PATCH][next] apparmor: Use struct_size() helper in kmalloc()

Gustavo A. R. Silva gustavoars at kernel.org
Tue Jan 25 01:56:06 UTC 2022


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:
security/apparmor/lib.c:139:23: warning: using sizeof on a flexible structure

Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/174
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars at kernel.org>
---
 security/apparmor/lib.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/security/apparmor/lib.c b/security/apparmor/lib.c
index fa49b81eb54c..5eda003c0d45 100644
--- a/security/apparmor/lib.c
+++ b/security/apparmor/lib.c
@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ __counted char *aa_str_alloc(int size, gfp_t gfp)
 {
 	struct counted_str *str;
 
-	str = kmalloc(sizeof(struct counted_str) + size, gfp);
+	str = kmalloc(struct_size(str, name, size), gfp);
 	if (!str)
 		return NULL;
 
-- 
2.27.0



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