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serial: 8250_pci: Prefer struct_size over open coded arithmetic
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 struct_size() helper to do the arithmetic instead of the argument "size + size * count" in the kzalloc() function. [1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v5.14/process/deprecated.html#open-coded-arithmetic-in-allocator-arguments Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Len Baker <len.baker@gmx.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210905155728.11147-1-len.baker@gmx.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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