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| author | Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> | 2014-06-04 16:12:07 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2014-06-04 16:54:20 -0700 |
| commit | 60a55369aad3336e604218abf2057363f69c0722 (patch) | |
| tree | a0794f63296fdd7f0d087392e071894b7eed9bb1 /scripts | |
| parent | f5ef95b12eb03ae4b3994cdb035612e127b630b9 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-60a55369aad3336e604218abf2057363f69c0722.tar.gz lwn-60a55369aad3336e604218abf2057363f69c0722.zip | |
checkpatch: add warning for kmalloc/kzalloc with multiply
Protect against sizeof overflows by preferring kmalloc_array/kcalloc over
kmalloc/kzalloc with a sizeof multiply.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'scripts')
| -rwxr-xr-x | scripts/checkpatch.pl | 24 |
1 files changed, 24 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl index e7ff52a39ec9..77740252bbed 100755 --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -4378,6 +4378,30 @@ sub process { "Prefer $3(sizeof(*$1)...) over $3($4...)\n" . $herecurr); } +# check for k[mz]alloc with multiplies that could be kmalloc_array/kcalloc + if ($^V && $^V ge 5.10.0 && + $line =~ /\b($Lval)\s*\=\s*(?:$balanced_parens)?\s*(k[mz]alloc)\s*\(\s*($FuncArg)\s*\*\s*($FuncArg)/) { + my $oldfunc = $3; + my $a1 = $4; + my $a2 = $10; + my $newfunc = "kmalloc_array"; + $newfunc = "kcalloc" if ($oldfunc eq "kzalloc"); + if ($a1 =~ /^sizeof\s*\S/ || $a2 =~ /^sizeof\s*\S/) { + if (WARN("ALLOC_WITH_MULTIPLY", + "Prefer $newfunc over $oldfunc with multiply\n" . $herecurr) && + $fix) { + my $r1 = $a1; + my $r2 = $a2; + if ($a1 =~ /^sizeof\s*\S/) { + $r1 = $a2; + $r2 = $a1; + } + $fixed[$linenr - 1] =~ s/\b($Lval)\s*\=\s*(?:$balanced_parens)?\s*(k[mz]alloc)\s*\(\s*($FuncArg)\s*\*\s*($FuncArg)/$1 . ' = ' . "$newfunc(" . trim($r1) . ', ' . trim($r2)/e; + + } + } + } + # check for krealloc arg reuse if ($^V && $^V ge 5.10.0 && $line =~ /\b($Lval)\s*\=\s*(?:$balanced_parens)?\s*krealloc\s*\(\s*\1\s*,/) { |