On Fri, Feb 06, 2026 at 02:21:52PM -0800, Kees Cook wrote: > 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.) > > The assigned type is "void **" but the returned type will be "void ***". > These are the same allocation size (pointer size), but the types do not > match. Adjust the allocation type to match the assignment. > > Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <[email protected]> > --- > Cc: Rob Clark <[email protected]> > Cc: Dmitry Baryshkov <[email protected]> > Cc: Abhinav Kumar <[email protected]> > Cc: Jessica Zhang <[email protected]> > Cc: Sean Paul <[email protected]> > Cc: Marijn Suijten <[email protected]> > Cc: David Airlie <[email protected]> > Cc: Simona Vetter <[email protected]> > Cc: <[email protected]> > Cc: <[email protected]> > Cc: <[email protected]> > --- > drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_iommu.c | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) >
Reviewed-by: Dmitry Baryshkov <[email protected]> -- With best wishes Dmitry
