On Thu, Sep 17, 2026 at 02:14:18PM -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 is "const struct hwmon_channel_info **", but the > converted allocation type would be "struct hwmon_channel_info **", which > is the same type without the const qualifier. As there is no general way > to safely add 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/hwmon/pwm-fan.o > > Assisted-by: LLM coccinelle > Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <[email protected]>
Applied. Thanks, Guenter
