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usb: usbtest: avoid integer overflow in alloc_sglist()

A large `nents' from userspace could overflow the allocation size,
leading to memory corruption.

| alloc_sglist()
| usbtest_ioctl()

Use kmalloc_array() to avoid the overflow.

Signed-off-by: Xi Wang <xi.wang@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Xi Wang 13 years ago
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      drivers/usb/misc/usbtest.c

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drivers/usb/misc/usbtest.c

@@ -423,7 +423,7 @@ alloc_sglist(int nents, int max, int vary)
 	unsigned		i;
 	unsigned		size = max;
 
-	sg = kmalloc(nents * sizeof *sg, GFP_KERNEL);
+	sg = kmalloc_array(nents, sizeof *sg, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!sg)
 		return NULL;
 	sg_init_table(sg, nents);