From: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev>
To: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@kernel.org>,
Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>,
James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>,
"Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>
Cc: linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org,
Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev>,
keyrings@vger.kernel.org, linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] keys: Use kmalloc_flex() to improve user_preparse()
Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2026 12:13:11 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260302111309.937726-3-thorsten.blum@linux.dev> (raw)
Use kmalloc_flex() when allocating a new 'struct user_key_payload' in
user_preparse() to replace the open-coded size arithmetic and to keep
the size type-safe.
Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev>
---
security/keys/user_defined.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/security/keys/user_defined.c b/security/keys/user_defined.c
index 686d56e4cc85..6f88b507f927 100644
--- a/security/keys/user_defined.c
+++ b/security/keys/user_defined.c
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ int user_preparse(struct key_preparsed_payload *prep)
if (datalen == 0 || datalen > 32767 || !prep->data)
return -EINVAL;
- upayload = kmalloc(sizeof(*upayload) + datalen, GFP_KERNEL);
+ upayload = kmalloc_flex(*upayload, data, datalen);
if (!upayload)
return -ENOMEM;
--
Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev>
GPG: 1D60 735E 8AEF 3BE4 73B6 9D84 7336 78FD 8DFE EAD4
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2026-03-02 11:13 Thorsten Blum [this message]
2026-03-04 0:17 ` [PATCH] keys: Use kmalloc_flex() to improve user_preparse() Jarkko Sakkinen
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