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From: Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
To: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Cc: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>,
	Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>,
	Daniel Gomez <da.gomez@samsung.com>,
	linux-modules@vger.kernel.org, Daniel Gomez <da.gomez@kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] module/decompress: Avoid open-coded kvrealloc()
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2025 13:31:00 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <d6632fc3-17e2-4d06-abbc-413bb6478db4@suse.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20251119225439.work.741-kees@kernel.org>

On 11/19/25 11:54 PM, Kees Cook wrote:
> Replace open-coded allocate/copy with kvrealloc().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
> ---
> Cc: Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
> Cc: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
> Cc: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
> Cc: Daniel Gomez <da.gomez@samsung.com>
> Cc: <linux-modules@vger.kernel.org>
> ---
>  kernel/module/decompress.c | 10 +++++-----
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/module/decompress.c b/kernel/module/decompress.c
> index 474e68f0f063..36f52a232a12 100644
> --- a/kernel/module/decompress.c
> +++ b/kernel/module/decompress.c
> @@ -17,16 +17,16 @@
>  static int module_extend_max_pages(struct load_info *info, unsigned int extent)
>  {
>  	struct page **new_pages;
> +	unsigned int new_max = info->max_pages + extent;
>  
> -	new_pages = kvmalloc_array(info->max_pages + extent,
> -				   sizeof(info->pages), GFP_KERNEL);
> +	new_pages = kvrealloc(info->pages,
> +			      size_mul(new_max, sizeof(*info->pages)),
> +			      GFP_KERNEL);

Nit: Using the array_size() alias of size_mul() might be clearer in this
context.

It looks ok to me in any case.

Reviewed-by: Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>

-- 
Thanks,
Petr

      reply	other threads:[~2025-11-20 12:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-11-19 22:54 [PATCH] module/decompress: Avoid open-coded kvrealloc() Kees Cook
2025-11-20 12:31 ` Petr Pavlu [this message]

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