Revert "UBIFS: Fix potential integer overflow in allocation"

commit 08acbdd6fd736b90f8d725da5a0de4de2dd6de62 upstream.

This reverts commit 353748a359f1821ee934afc579cf04572406b420.
It bypassed the linux-mtd review process and fixes the issue not as it
should.

Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Silvio Cesare <silvio.cesare@gmail.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

diff --git a/fs/ubifs/journal.c b/fs/ubifs/journal.c
index 22dba8837a8612f59193f0bb49d70d2483aee977..0b9da5b6e0f966192408b4ddd1ec18bf7ce9555a 100644 (file)
--- a/fs/ubifs/journal.c
+++ b/fs/ubifs/journal.c
@@ -1107,7 +1107,7 @@ static int recomp_data_node(const struct ubifs_info *c,
        int err, len, compr_type, out_len;
 
        out_len = le32_to_cpu(dn->size);
-       buf = kmalloc_array(out_len, WORST_COMPR_FACTOR, GFP_NOFS);
+       buf = kmalloc(out_len * WORST_COMPR_FACTOR, GFP_NOFS);
        if (!buf)
                return -ENOMEM;