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flex_array: convert element_nr formals to unsigned

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It's problematic to allow signed element_nr's or total's to be passed as
part of the flex array API.

flex_array_alloc() allows total_nr_elements to be set to a negative
quantity, which is obviously erroneous.

flex_array_get() and flex_array_put() allows negative array indices in
dereferencing an array part, which could address memory mapped before
struct flex_array.

The fix is to convert all existing element_nr formals to be qualified as
unsigned.  Existing checks to compare it to total_nr_elements or the max
array size based on element_size need not be changed.

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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David Rientjes 2009-08-26 14:29:22 -07:00 • committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 8e7ee27095
commit b62e408c05
2 changed files with 19 additions and 15 deletions
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include/linux/flex_array.h
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@ -36,12 +36,14 @@ struct flex_array {
.total_nr_elements = (total), \
} } }
struct flex_array *flex_array_alloc(int element_size, int total, gfp_t flags);
int flex_array_prealloc(struct flex_array *fa, int start, int end, gfp_t flags);
struct flex_array *flex_array_alloc(int element_size, unsigned int total,
gfp_t flags);
int flex_array_prealloc(struct flex_array *fa, unsigned int start,
unsigned int end, gfp_t flags);
void flex_array_free(struct flex_array *fa);
void flex_array_free_parts(struct flex_array *fa);
int flex_array_put(struct flex_array *fa, int element_nr, void *src,
int flex_array_put(struct flex_array *fa, unsigned int element_nr, void *src,
gfp_t flags);
void *flex_array_get(struct flex_array *fa, int element_nr);
void *flex_array_get(struct flex_array *fa, unsigned int element_nr);
#endif /* _FLEX_ARRAY_H */