Commit 2f00e680 authored Jan 14, 2017 by Markus Elfring Committed by Paul Moore Mar 23, 2017

selinux: Use kmalloc_array() in hashtab_create()



A multiplication for the size determination of a memory allocation
indicated that an array data structure should be processed.
Thus use the corresponding function "kmalloc_array".

This issue was detected by using the Coccinelle software.

Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>

parent fb13a312

security/selinux/ss/hashtab.c

+1 −1

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ struct hashtab hashtab_create(u32 (hash_value)(struct hashtab h, const void
		p->nel = 0;
		p->hash_value = hash_value;
		p->keycmp = keycmp;
		p->htable = kmalloc(sizeof((p->htable)) size, GFP_KERNEL);
		p->htable = kmalloc_array(size, sizeof(*p->htable), GFP_KERNEL);
		if (p->htable == NULL) {
		kfree(p);
		return NULL;

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