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This is an effort to get rid of all multiplications from allocation
functions in order to prevent integer overflows [1][2].
As the "cmd_buf" variable is a pointer to "struct at76_command" and
this structure ends in a flexible array:
struct at76_command {
[...]
u8 data[];
} __packed;
the preferred way in the kernel is to use the struct_size() helper to
do the arithmetic instead of the calculation "size + count" in the
kmalloc() function.
Also, declare a new variable (total_size) since the return value of the
struct_size() helper is used several times.
At the same time, prepare for the coming implementation by GCC and Clang
of the __counted_by attribute. Flexible array members annotated with
__counted_by can have their accesses bounds-checked at run-time via
CONFIG_UBSAN_BOUNDS (for array indexing) and CONFIG_FORTIFY_SOURCE (for
strcpy/memcpy-family functions). In this case, it is important to note
that the attribute used is "__counted_by_le" since the counter type is
"__le16".
This way, the code is more readable and safer.
Link: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#open-coded-arithmetic-in-allocator-arguments [1]
Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/160 [2]
Signed-off-by: Erick Archer <erick.archer@outlook.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@kernel.org>
Link: https://msgid.link/AS8PR02MB7237578654CEDDFE5F8C17BA8BFE2@AS8PR02MB7237.eurprd02.prod.outlook.com
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Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.