Subject: [PATCH net-next v1] net: sched: cls_u32: Avoid memcpy() false-positive warning in u32_init_knode()

From: Jiayuan Chen <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2026 15:33:43 +0800

From: Jiayuan Chen <[email-masked]>

Syzbot reported a warning in u32_init_knode() [1].

Similar to commit 7cba18332e36 ("net: sched: cls_u32: Avoid memcpy()
false-positive warning") which addressed the same issue in u32_change(),
use unsafe_memcpy() in u32_init_knode() to work around the compiler's
inability to see into composite flexible array structs.

This silences the false-positive reported by syzbot:

  memcpy: detected field-spanning write (size 32) of single field
  "&new->sel" at net/sched/cls_u32.c:855 (size 16)

Since the memory is correctly allocated with kzalloc_flex() using
s->nkeys, this is purely a false positive and does not need a Fixes tag.

[1] https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=d5ace703ed883df56e42

Reported-by: [email-masked]
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email-masked]/T/
Signed-off-by: Jiayuan Chen <[email-masked]>
Made-with: Cursor
---
 net/sched/cls_u32.c | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/sched/cls_u32.c b/net/sched/cls_u32.c
index 9241c025aa74..8f30cc82181d 100644
--- a/net/sched/cls_u32.c
+++ b/net/sched/cls_u32.c
@@ -852,7 +852,10 @@ static struct tc_u_knode *u32_init_knode(struct net *net, struct tcf_proto *tp,
 	/* Similarly success statistics must be moved as pointers */
 	new->pcpu_success = n->pcpu_success;
 #endif
-	memcpy(&new->sel, s, struct_size(s, keys, s->nkeys));
+	unsafe_memcpy(&new->sel, s, struct_size(s, keys, s->nkeys),
+		      /* A composite flex-array structure destination,
+		       * which was correctly sized with kzalloc_flex(),
+		       * above. */);
 
 	if (tcf_exts_init(&new->exts, net, TCA_U32_ACT, TCA_U32_POLICE)) {
 		kfree(new);
-- 
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