linux-kernel - [PATCH] ipv4: fib: Fix fib_info_hash

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Message-Id: <20250426060529.work.873-kees@kernel.org>
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2025 23:05:30 -0700
From: Kees Cook <kees@...nel.org>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc: Kees Cook <kees@...nel.org>,
	David Ahern <dsahern@...nel.org>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
	Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
	Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] ipv4: fib: Fix fib_info_hash_alloc() allocation type

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 <kees@...nel.org>
---
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@...nel.org>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
Cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Cc: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
Cc: Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>
Cc: <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
---
 net/ipv4/fib_semantics.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv4/fib_semantics.c b/net/ipv4/fib_semantics.c
index f68bb9e34c34..37d12b0bc6be 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/fib_semantics.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/fib_semantics.c
@@ -365,7 +365,7 @@ static struct hlist_head *fib_info_laddrhash_bucket(const struct net *net,
 static struct hlist_head *fib_info_hash_alloc(unsigned int hash_bits)
 {
 	/* The second half is used for prefsrc */
-	return kvcalloc((1 << hash_bits) * 2, sizeof(struct hlist_head *),
+	return kvcalloc((1 << hash_bits) * 2, sizeof(struct hlist_head),
 			GFP_KERNEL);
 }
 
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