On Fri, Apr 25, 2025 at 11:05:30PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote: > In preparation for making the kmalloc family of allocators type aware, > we need to make sure that the returned type from the allocation matches > the type of the variable being assigned. (Before, the allocator would > always return "void *", which can be implicitly cast to any pointer type.) > > This was allocating many sizeof(struct hlist_head *) when it actually > wanted sizeof(struct hlist_head). Luckily these are the same size. > Adjust the allocation type to match the assignment. > > Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <k...@kernel.org>
Thanks, your analysis matches my understanding of the code. Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <ho...@kernel.org>
