On Thu, 17 Sep 2026 14:14:37 -0700 Kees Cook <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: Kees Cook <[email protected]> > > In preparation for making the devm_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 iio_chan_spec *", but the converted > allocation type would be "const struct iio_chan_spec *", as the size was > taken from "*indio_dev->channels", and "indio_dev->channels" points to > const. As there is no general way to remove const qualifiers, take the > size from the assignment target instead. No change in allocation size > results. > > Build tested ARCH=x86_64 allmodconfig with GCC 16.2.0: > drivers/iio/adc/ad7173.o > > Assisted-by: LLM coccinelle > Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <[email protected]> > --- Makes sense. Reviewed-by: Joshua Crofts <[email protected]> -- Kind regards, Joshua Crofts
