On Thu, Sep 17, 2026 at 02:13:39PM -0700, Kees Cook 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 of "info_map[type]" is "struct hp_wmi_info **", but > the converted allocation type would be "struct hp_wmi_info ***", as the > size was taken from "*info_map", which is one level of indirection too > many. Luckily both element types are pointers of the same size. Take the > size from the element type of the assignment target. > > Build tested ARCH=x86_64 allmodconfig with GCC 16.2.0: > drivers/hwmon/hp-wmi-sensors.o > > Assisted-by: LLM coccinelle > Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <[email protected]> > Acked-by: James Seo <[email protected]>
Applied. Thanks, Guenter
