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From: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
To: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Cc: Kees Cook <kees+treewide@kernel.org>,
	Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>,
	Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>,
	Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@linux.ibm.com>,
	Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com>,
	linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] s390/keyboard: Allocate key_maps and func_table with ARRAY_SIZE()
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2026 12:12:51 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260918101251.20386B25-hca@linux.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260917211239.i.576-kees@kernel.org>

On Thu, Sep 17, 2026 at 02:12:40PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> From: Kees Cook <kees+treewide@kernel.org>
> 
> In preparation for converting the kmalloc family of allocators to the
> type-aware kmalloc_obj family, we need to make sure that the returned
> type from the allocation matches the type of the variable being
> assigned. (The kmalloc family returns "void *", which can be implicitly
> cast to any pointer type.)
> 
> These allocate as many pointers as ebc_key_maps and ebc_func_table hold,
> but the sizes were taken from the whole arrays, which would make the
> allocation types pointers to those arrays rather than the "u_short **"
> and "char **" being assigned. Allocate ARRAY_SIZE-many entries instead.
> The resulting allocation sizes are the same.
> 
> Build tested ARCH=s390 allmodconfig with GCC s390x-linux-gnu 16.1.0:
> drivers/s390/char/keyboard.o
> 
> Assisted-by: LLM coccinelle
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees+treewide@kernel.org>
> ---
> Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
> Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
> Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>
> Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@linux.ibm.com>
> Cc: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com>
> Cc: <linux-s390@vger.kernel.org>
> ---
>  drivers/s390/char/keyboard.c | 6 ++++--
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Applied, thanks!

      parent reply	other threads:[~2026-09-18 10:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-09-17 21:12 [PATCH] s390/keyboard: Allocate key_maps and func_table with ARRAY_SIZE() Kees Cook
2026-09-17 21:20 ` sashiko-bot
2026-09-18 10:12 ` Heiko Carstens [this message]

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