From: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@kernel.org>
To: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>,
James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>,
"Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>,
linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org, keyrings@vger.kernel.org,
linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] keys: Use kmalloc_flex() to improve user_preparse()
Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2026 02:17:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aad5_jRIBZzf3s6z@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260302111309.937726-3-thorsten.blum@linux.dev>
On Mon, Mar 02, 2026 at 12:13:11PM +0100, Thorsten Blum wrote:
> 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
>
David, do we want this?
BR, Jarkko
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2026-03-02 11:13 [PATCH] keys: Use kmalloc_flex() to improve user_preparse() Thorsten Blum
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