On Fri, Feb 13, 2026 at 03:03:24PM +0000, Marc Zyngier wrote: > On Fri, 06 Feb 2026 14:30:23 -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 "struct gic_kvm_info", but the returned type, > > while matching, is const qualified. To get them exactly matching, just > > use the dereferenced pointer for the sizeof(). > > > > [...] > > Applied to fixes, thanks! > > [1/1] KVM: arm64: vgic: Handle const qualifier from gic_kvm_info allocation > type > commit: ee5c38a8d31e5dea52299c43c2ec3213351ab6e1
Just a heads-up that I ended up sending this patch to Linus for -rc1 as it was a prerequisite for the tree-wide kmalloc_obj refactoring. Sorry for any merge conflicts this might create for your tree! It is now commit c732084c891d there. -- Kees Cook
