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memstick: jmb38x_ms: Prefer struct_size over open coded arithmetic

As noted in the "Deprecated Interfaces, Language Features, Attributes,
and Conventions" documentation [1], size calculations (especially
multiplication) should not be performed in memory allocator (or similar)
function arguments due to the risk of them overflowing. This could lead
to values wrapping around and a smaller allocation being made than the
caller was expecting. Using those allocations could lead to linear
overflows of heap memory and other misbehaviors.

So, use the struct_size() helper to do the arithmetic instead of the
argument "size + count * size" in the kzalloc() function.

[1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v5.14/process/deprecated.html#open-coded-arithmetic-in-allocator-arguments

Signed-off-by: Len Baker <len.baker@gmx.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210911131933.2089-1-len.baker@gmx.com
Signed-off-by: Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@linaro.org>

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drivers/memstick/host/jmb38x_ms.c
··· 927 927 goto err_out_int; 928 928 } 929 929 930 - jm = kzalloc(sizeof(struct jmb38x_ms) 931 - + cnt * sizeof(struct memstick_host *), GFP_KERNEL); 930 + jm = kzalloc(struct_size(jm, hosts, cnt), GFP_KERNEL); 932 931 if (!jm) { 933 932 rc = -ENOMEM; 934 933 goto err_out_int;