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authorJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>2014-06-04 19:12:07 -0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2014-06-04 19:54:20 -0400
commit60a55369aad3336e604218abf2057363f69c0722 (patch)
treea0794f63296fdd7f0d087392e071894b7eed9bb1 /scripts
parentf5ef95b12eb03ae4b3994cdb035612e127b630b9 (diff)
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-xscripts/checkpatch.pl24
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 {
4378 "Prefer $3(sizeof(*$1)...) over $3($4...)\n" . $herecurr); 4378 "Prefer $3(sizeof(*$1)...) over $3($4...)\n" . $herecurr);
4379 } 4379 }
4380 4380
4381# check for k[mz]alloc with multiplies that could be kmalloc_array/kcalloc
4382 if ($^V && $^V ge 5.10.0 &&
4383 $line =~ /\b($Lval)\s*\=\s*(?:$balanced_parens)?\s*(k[mz]alloc)\s*\(\s*($FuncArg)\s*\*\s*($FuncArg)/) {
4384 my $oldfunc = $3;
4385 my $a1 = $4;
4386 my $a2 = $10;
4387 my $newfunc = "kmalloc_array";
4388 $newfunc = "kcalloc" if ($oldfunc eq "kzalloc");
4389 if ($a1 =~ /^sizeof\s*\S/ || $a2 =~ /^sizeof\s*\S/) {
4390 if (WARN("ALLOC_WITH_MULTIPLY",
4391 "Prefer $newfunc over $oldfunc with multiply\n" . $herecurr) &&
4392 $fix) {
4393 my $r1 = $a1;
4394 my $r2 = $a2;
4395 if ($a1 =~ /^sizeof\s*\S/) {
4396 $r1 = $a2;
4397 $r2 = $a1;
4398 }
4399 $fixed[$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;
4400
4401 }
4402 }
4403 }
4404
4381# check for krealloc arg reuse 4405# check for krealloc arg reuse
4382 if ($^V && $^V ge 5.10.0 && 4406 if ($^V && $^V ge 5.10.0 &&
4383 $line =~ /\b($Lval)\s*\=\s*(?:$balanced_parens)?\s*krealloc\s*\(\s*\1\s*,/) { 4407 $line =~ /\b($Lval)\s*\=\s*(?:$balanced_parens)?\s*krealloc\s*\(\s*\1\s*,/) {