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-rw-r--r--drivers/platform/surface/surface_aggregator_cdev.c19
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/platform/surface/surface_aggregator_cdev.c b/drivers/platform/surface/surface_aggregator_cdev.c
index 979340cdd9de..79e28fab7e40 100644
--- a/drivers/platform/surface/surface_aggregator_cdev.c
+++ b/drivers/platform/surface/surface_aggregator_cdev.c
@@ -106,6 +106,15 @@ static long ssam_cdev_request(struct ssam_cdev *cdev, unsigned long arg)
goto out;
}
+ /*
+ * Note: spec.length is limited to U16_MAX bytes via struct
+ * ssam_cdev_request. This is slightly larger than the
+ * theoretical maximum (SSH_COMMAND_MAX_PAYLOAD_SIZE) of the
+ * underlying protocol (note that nothing remotely this size
+ * should ever be allocated in any normal case). This size is
+ * validated later in ssam_request_sync(), for allocation the
+ * bound imposed by u16 should be enough.
+ */
spec.payload = kzalloc(spec.length, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!spec.payload) {
ret = -ENOMEM;
@@ -125,6 +134,16 @@ static long ssam_cdev_request(struct ssam_cdev *cdev, unsigned long arg)
goto out;
}
+ /*
+ * Note: rsp.capacity is limited to U16_MAX bytes via struct
+ * ssam_cdev_request. This is slightly larger than the
+ * theoretical maximum (SSH_COMMAND_MAX_PAYLOAD_SIZE) of the
+ * underlying protocol (note that nothing remotely this size
+ * should ever be allocated in any normal case). In later use,
+ * this capacity does not have to be strictly bounded, as it
+ * is only used as an output buffer to be written to. For
+ * allocation the bound imposed by u16 should be enough.
+ */
rsp.pointer = kzalloc(rsp.capacity, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!rsp.pointer) {
ret = -ENOMEM;