[for-linus][PATCH 3/3] eventfs: Use kcalloc() instead of kzalloc()

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Wed Jan 17 2024 - 09:37:18 EST


From: Erick Archer <erick.archer@xxxxxxx>

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.

So, use the purpose specific kcalloc() function instead of the argument
size * count in the kzalloc() function.

[1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/next/process/deprecated.html#open-coded-arithmetic-in-allocator-arguments

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20240115181658.4562-1-erick.archer@xxxxxxx

Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx>
Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/162
Signed-off-by: Erick Archer <erick.archer@xxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/tracefs/event_inode.c | 6 +++---
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/tracefs/event_inode.c b/fs/tracefs/event_inode.c
index 10580d6b5012..6795fda2af19 100644
--- a/fs/tracefs/event_inode.c
+++ b/fs/tracefs/event_inode.c
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ static int eventfs_set_attr(struct mnt_idmap *idmap, struct dentry *dentry,
/* Preallocate the children mode array if necessary */
if (!(dentry->d_inode->i_mode & S_IFDIR)) {
if (!ei->entry_attrs) {
- ei->entry_attrs = kzalloc(sizeof(*ei->entry_attrs) * ei->nr_entries,
+ ei->entry_attrs = kcalloc(ei->nr_entries, sizeof(*ei->entry_attrs),
GFP_NOFS);
if (!ei->entry_attrs) {
ret = -ENOMEM;
@@ -874,7 +874,7 @@ struct eventfs_inode *eventfs_create_dir(const char *name, struct eventfs_inode
}

if (size) {
- ei->d_children = kzalloc(sizeof(*ei->d_children) * size, GFP_KERNEL);
+ ei->d_children = kcalloc(size, sizeof(*ei->d_children), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!ei->d_children) {
kfree_const(ei->name);
kfree(ei);
@@ -941,7 +941,7 @@ struct eventfs_inode *eventfs_create_events_dir(const char *name, struct dentry
goto fail;

if (size) {
- ei->d_children = kzalloc(sizeof(*ei->d_children) * size, GFP_KERNEL);
+ ei->d_children = kcalloc(size, sizeof(*ei->d_children), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!ei->d_children)
goto fail;
}
--
2.43.0