[PATCH] kcsan: test: Adjust "expect" allocation type for kmalloc_obj

From: Kees Cook

Date: Mon Feb 23 2026 - 17:22:38 EST


Instead of depending on the implicit case between a pointer to pointers
and pointer to arrays, use the assigned variable type for the allocation
type so they correctly match. Solves the following build error:

../kernel/kcsan/kcsan_test.c: In function '__report_matches':
../kernel/kcsan/kcsan_test.c:171:16: error: assignment to 'char (*)[512]' from incompatible pointer type 'char (*)[3][512]'
[-Wincompatible-pointer-types]
171 | expect = kmalloc_obj(observed.lines);
| ^

Tested with:

$ ./tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py run \
--kconfig_add CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL=y \
--kconfig_add CONFIG_KCSAN=y \
--kconfig_add CONFIG_KCSAN_KUNIT_TEST=y \
--arch=x86_64 --qemu_args '-smp 2' kcsan

Reported-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Fixes: 69050f8d6d07 ("treewide: Replace kmalloc with kmalloc_obj for non-scalar types")
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
Cc: Marco Elver <elver@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <kasan-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/kcsan/kcsan_test.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/kcsan/kcsan_test.c b/kernel/kcsan/kcsan_test.c
index 79e655ea4ca1..056fa859ad9a 100644
--- a/kernel/kcsan/kcsan_test.c
+++ b/kernel/kcsan/kcsan_test.c
@@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ static bool __report_matches(const struct expect_report *r)
if (!report_available())
return false;

- expect = kmalloc_obj(observed.lines);
+ expect = kmalloc_obj(*expect);
if (WARN_ON(!expect))
return false;

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2.34.1