[PATCH -next] audit: use struct_size() helper in kmalloc()

Xiu Jianfeng xiujianfeng at huawei.com
Tue Dec 14 11:48:54 UTC 2021


Make use of struct_size() helper instead of an open-coded calucation.

Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/160
Signed-off-by: Xiu Jianfeng <xiujianfeng at huawei.com>
---
 kernel/audit.c       | 2 +-
 kernel/audit_tree.c  | 2 +-
 kernel/auditfilter.c | 2 +-
 3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/audit.c b/kernel/audit.c
index d4084751cfe6..f33028578c60 100644
--- a/kernel/audit.c
+++ b/kernel/audit.c
@@ -1446,7 +1446,7 @@ static int audit_receive_msg(struct sk_buff *skb, struct nlmsghdr *nlh)
 			if (err)
 				return err;
 		}
-		sig_data = kmalloc(sizeof(*sig_data) + len, GFP_KERNEL);
+		sig_data = kmalloc(struct_size(sig_data, ctx, len), GFP_KERNEL);
 		if (!sig_data) {
 			if (audit_sig_sid)
 				security_release_secctx(ctx, len);
diff --git a/kernel/audit_tree.c b/kernel/audit_tree.c
index 72324afcffef..e7315d487163 100644
--- a/kernel/audit_tree.c
+++ b/kernel/audit_tree.c
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ static struct audit_tree *alloc_tree(const char *s)
 {
 	struct audit_tree *tree;
 
-	tree = kmalloc(sizeof(struct audit_tree) + strlen(s) + 1, GFP_KERNEL);
+	tree = kmalloc(struct_size(tree, pathname, strlen(s) + 1), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (tree) {
 		refcount_set(&tree->count, 1);
 		tree->goner = 0;
diff --git a/kernel/auditfilter.c b/kernel/auditfilter.c
index 4173e771650c..19352820b274 100644
--- a/kernel/auditfilter.c
+++ b/kernel/auditfilter.c
@@ -637,7 +637,7 @@ static struct audit_rule_data *audit_krule_to_data(struct audit_krule *krule)
 	void *bufp;
 	int i;
 
-	data = kmalloc(sizeof(*data) + krule->buflen, GFP_KERNEL);
+	data = kmalloc(struct_size(data, buf, krule->buflen), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (unlikely(!data))
 		return NULL;
 	memset(data, 0, sizeof(*data));
-- 
2.17.1




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