On Thu, Sep 17, 2026 at 02:10:43PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote: > From: Kees Cook <[email protected]> > > In preparation for converting the kmalloc family of allocators to the > type-aware kmalloc_obj family, we need to make sure that the returned > type from the allocation matches the type of the variable being > assigned. (The kmalloc family returns "void *", which can be implicitly > cast to any pointer type.) > > The assigned type is "const char **", but the converted allocation type > would be "char **", 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: > sound/soc/codecs/wm8904.o > > Assisted-by: LLM coccinelle > Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <[email protected]> > ---
Reviewed-by: Charles Keepax <[email protected]> Thanks, Charles
