[PATCH] um: vector: use kmalloc_objs() for the message vector

Hungyu Lin dennylin0707 at gmail.com
Tue Oct 20 00:20:35 PDT 2026


Allocate mmsg_vector with kmalloc_objs() so the element size is derived
from the destination type and the allocation helper handles multiplication
overflow. The default allocation flags remain GFP_KERNEL.

Signed-off-by: Hungyu Lin <dennylin0707 at gmail.com>
---
 arch/um/drivers/vector_kern.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/um/drivers/vector_kern.c b/arch/um/drivers/vector_kern.c
index e902e78c5ff6..d6127944b202 100644
--- a/arch/um/drivers/vector_kern.c
+++ b/arch/um/drivers/vector_kern.c
@@ -528,8 +528,7 @@ static struct vector_queue *create_queue(
 		return NULL;
 	result->max_depth = max_size;
 	result->dev = vp->dev;
-	result->mmsg_vector = kmalloc(
-		(sizeof(struct mmsghdr) * max_size), GFP_KERNEL);
+	result->mmsg_vector = kmalloc_objs(*result->mmsg_vector, max_size);
 	if (result->mmsg_vector == NULL)
 		goto out_mmsg_fail;
 	result->skbuff_vector = kmalloc(

base-commit: 4ad423aa2108485f8bc5dde51fdf9c1ed979ee4b



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