linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ima: Fix sizeof mismatches

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Date:   Wed, 7 Oct 2020 19:49:50 +0300
From:   Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@...ux.intel.com>
To:     Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>
Cc:     Mimi Zohar <zohar@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Dmitry Kasatkin <dmitry.kasatkin@...il.com>,
        James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>,
        "Serge E . Hallyn" <serge@...lyn.com>,
        Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu@...ito.it>,
        linux-integrity@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ima: Fix sizeof mismatches

On Wed, Oct 07, 2020 at 12:02:43PM +0100, Colin King wrote:
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
> 
> An incorrect sizeof is being used, sizeof(*fields) is not correct,
> it should be sizeof(**fields). This is not causing a problem since
> the size of these is the same. Fix this in the kmalloc_array and
> memcpy calls.
> 
> Addresses-Coverity: ("Sizeof not portable (SIZEOF_MISMATCH)")
> Fixes: 1bd7face7439 ("ima: allocate field pointers array on demand in template_desc_init_fields()")
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>

Acked-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@...ux.intel.com>

/Jarkko