From: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
To: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev>
Cc: Parthiban Veerasooran <parthiban.veerasooran@microchip.com>,
Christian Gromm <christian.gromm@microchip.com>,
linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] most: usb: Use kzalloc_objs for endpoint address array
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2026 12:56:00 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <202602251250.D5F6E027@keescook> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260225180329.712101-2-thorsten.blum@linux.dev>
On Wed, Feb 25, 2026 at 07:03:29PM +0100, Thorsten Blum wrote:
> Replace kcalloc() with kzalloc_objs() when allocating the endpoint
> address array to keep the size type-safe and match nearby allocations.
> Reformat ->busy_urbs allocation to a single line. No functional change.
>
> Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev>
> ---
> drivers/most/most_usb.c | 6 ++----
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/most/most_usb.c b/drivers/most/most_usb.c
> index d2c0875727a3..6437733afee0 100644
> --- a/drivers/most/most_usb.c
> +++ b/drivers/most/most_usb.c
> @@ -1009,13 +1009,11 @@ hdm_probe(struct usb_interface *interface, const struct usb_device_id *id)
> goto err_free_conf;
>
> mdev->iface.channel_vector = mdev->cap;
> - mdev->ep_address =
> - kcalloc(num_endpoints, sizeof(*mdev->ep_address), GFP_KERNEL);
> + mdev->ep_address = kzalloc_objs(*mdev->ep_address, num_endpoints);
This case was skipped because mdev->ep_address is "u8 *". This is a
pretty long way to go about allocating "num_endpoints"-many bytes.
Perhaps this should just be:
mdev->ep_address = kzalloc(num_endpoints, GFP_KERNEL);
Though maybe in keeping with all the other num_endpoints allocations,
your patch is fine as-is. I'd be nice to use __counted_by_ptr() here,
but the num_endpoints is in a sub-structure, which isn't supported yet.
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
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Kees Cook
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2026-02-25 18:03 [PATCH] most: usb: Use kzalloc_objs for endpoint address array Thorsten Blum
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