On 9/17/26 11:12 PM, Kees Cook wrote: > From: Kees Cook <[email protected]> > > In preparation for converting the kmalloc family of allocators to the > type-aware kmalloc_obj family, we need to make sure that the returned > type from the allocation matches the type of the variable being > assigned. (The kmalloc family returns "void *", which can be implicitly > cast to any pointer type.) > > argv holds 5 pointers, but the size was taken from the array type > "char *[5]", which would make the allocation type a pointer to that > array rather than the "char **" being assigned. Allocate 5 entries of > the target's type instead. The resulting allocation size is the same. > > Build tested ARCH=x86_64 allmodconfig with GCC 16.2.0: > kernel/module/kmod.o > > Assisted-by: LLM coccinelle > Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <[email protected]>
Looks ok to me. I've queued the patch on modules-next for 7.4-rc1. -- Thanks, Petr
