From: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>, Kees Cook <kees+treewide@kernel.org>,
Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@kernel.org>,
Nicolas Pitre <npitre@baylibre.com>,
linux-serial@vger.kernel.org, Alexey Gladkov <legion@kernel.org>,
Joshua Rogers <linux@joshua.hu>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] vt: keyboard: Allocate new_map with ARRAY_SIZE()
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2026 14:15:40 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260917211539.i.636-kees@kernel.org> (raw)
From: Kees Cook <kees+treewide@kernel.org>
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.)
The new key map has as many entries as plain_map, but the size was taken
from the whole array, which would make the allocation type a pointer to
the array rather than the "unsigned short *" being assigned. Allocate
ARRAY_SIZE-many entries instead. The resulting allocation size is the
same.
Build tested ARCH=x86_64 allmodconfig with GCC 16.2.0:
drivers/tty/vt/keyboard.o
Assisted-by: LLM coccinelle
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees+treewide@kernel.org>
---
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@kernel.org>
Cc: Nicolas Pitre <npitre@baylibre.com>
Cc: <linux-serial@vger.kernel.org>
---
drivers/tty/vt/keyboard.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/tty/vt/keyboard.c b/drivers/tty/vt/keyboard.c
index c41d850b29c6..ef4a19aeb3ce 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/vt/keyboard.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/vt/keyboard.c
@@ -2002,7 +2002,9 @@ static int vt_kdskbent(unsigned char kbdmode, unsigned char idx,
return 0;
#endif
- unsigned short __free(kfree) *new_map = kmalloc(sizeof(plain_map), GFP_KERNEL);
+ unsigned short __free(kfree) *new_map =
+ kmalloc_array(ARRAY_SIZE(plain_map), sizeof(*new_map),
+ GFP_KERNEL);
if (!new_map)
return -ENOMEM;
--
2.34.1
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