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size can potentially hold an overflowed value if its assigned expression is left unchecked, leading to a smaller than needed allocation when vla_group_size() is used by callers to allocate memory. To fix this, add a test for saturation before declaring variables and an overflow check to (n) * sizeof(type). If the expression results in overflow, vla_group_size() will return SIZE_MAX. Reported-by: Ilja Van Sprundel <ivansprundel@ioactive.com> Suggested-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Brooke Basile <brookebasile@gmail.com> Acked-by: Felipe Balbi <balbi@kernel.org> Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.