Re: [PATCH] i2c: mux: harden i2c_mux_alloc() against integer overflows

From: Kees Cook
Date: Fri Sep 16 2022 - 17:31:36 EST


On Fri, Sep 16, 2022 at 05:55:55PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 16, 2022 at 06:31:45AM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 16, 2022 at 11:23:25AM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > > [...]
> > > net/ipv6/mcast.c:450 ip6_mc_source() saving 'size_add' to type 'int'
> >
> > Interesting! Are you able to report the consumer? e.g. I think a bunch
> > of these would be fixed by:
> >
>
> Are you asking if I can add "passed to sock_kmalloc()" to the report?

Yeah.

> It's possible but it's kind of a headache the way this code is written.

Okay, no worries -- I was curious if it would be "easy". I can happily
just spit out the source line.

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Kees Cook