* [PATCH] lib: objagg: Use flexible arrays for object storage
@ 2026-05-19 1:58 Rosen Penev
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From: Rosen Penev @ 2026-05-19 1:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: netdev
Cc: Jiri Pirko, Andrew Morton, Kees Cook, Gustavo A. R. Silva,
open list:LIBRARY CODE,
open list:KERNEL HARDENING (not covered by other areas):Keyword:b__counted_by(_le|_be|_ptr)?b
Store object payloads and temporary graph nodes in their parent
allocations instead of open-coding trailing storage or allocating the
node array separately.
Use byte-sized flexible arrays for object payloads so kzalloc_flex() is
passed the same byte count as the previous allocation sizes.
Assisted-by: Codex:GPT-5.5
Signed-off-by: Rosen Penev <rosenp@gmail.com>
---
lib/objagg.c | 19 ++++++-------------
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
diff --git a/lib/objagg.c b/lib/objagg.c
index 23c7105a3f9f..995ec67fbc2f 100644
--- a/lib/objagg.c
+++ b/lib/objagg.c
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ struct objagg_hints_node {
struct objagg_hints_node *parent;
unsigned int root_id;
struct objagg_obj_stats_info stats_info;
- unsigned long obj[];
+ u8 obj[];
};
static struct objagg_hints_node *
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ struct objagg_obj {
* including nested objects
*/
struct objagg_obj_stats stats;
- unsigned long obj[];
+ u8 obj[];
};
static unsigned int objagg_obj_ref_inc(struct objagg_obj *objagg_obj)
@@ -369,8 +369,7 @@ static struct objagg_obj *objagg_obj_create(struct objagg *objagg, void *obj)
struct objagg_obj *objagg_obj;
int err;
- objagg_obj = kzalloc(sizeof(*objagg_obj) + objagg->ops->obj_size,
- GFP_KERNEL);
+ objagg_obj = kzalloc_flex(*objagg_obj, obj, objagg->ops->obj_size);
if (!objagg_obj)
return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
objagg_obj_ref_inc(objagg_obj);
@@ -657,7 +656,7 @@ objagg_hints_node_create(struct objagg_hints *objagg_hints,
struct objagg_hints_node *hnode;
int err;
- hnode = kzalloc(sizeof(*hnode) + obj_size, GFP_KERNEL);
+ hnode = kzalloc_flex(*hnode, obj, obj_size);
if (!hnode)
return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
memcpy(hnode->obj, &objagg_obj->obj, obj_size);
@@ -705,9 +704,9 @@ struct objagg_tmp_node {
};
struct objagg_tmp_graph {
- struct objagg_tmp_node *nodes;
unsigned long nodes_count;
unsigned long *edges;
+ struct objagg_tmp_node nodes[] __counted_by(nodes_count);
};
static int objagg_tmp_graph_edge_index(struct objagg_tmp_graph *graph,
@@ -786,13 +785,10 @@ static struct objagg_tmp_graph *objagg_tmp_graph_create(struct objagg *objagg)
struct objagg_obj *objagg_obj;
int i, j;
- graph = kzalloc_obj(*graph);
+ graph = kzalloc_flex(*graph, nodes, nodes_count);
if (!graph)
return NULL;
- graph->nodes = kzalloc_objs(*graph->nodes, nodes_count);
- if (!graph->nodes)
- goto err_nodes_alloc;
graph->nodes_count = nodes_count;
graph->edges = bitmap_zalloc(nodes_count * nodes_count, GFP_KERNEL);
@@ -825,8 +821,6 @@ static struct objagg_tmp_graph *objagg_tmp_graph_create(struct objagg *objagg)
return graph;
err_edges_alloc:
- kfree(graph->nodes);
-err_nodes_alloc:
kfree(graph);
return NULL;
}
@@ -834,7 +828,6 @@ static struct objagg_tmp_graph *objagg_tmp_graph_create(struct objagg *objagg)
static void objagg_tmp_graph_destroy(struct objagg_tmp_graph *graph)
{
bitmap_free(graph->edges);
- kfree(graph->nodes);
kfree(graph);
}
--
2.54.0
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