On Thu, 17 Sep 2026 14:11:26 -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> 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 "char **", but the converted allocation type would
> be "const char **", which is const qualified. As there is no general way
> to remove const qualifiers, take the size from the assignment target
> instead. No change in allocation size results.
>
> [...]
Applied, thanks!
[1/1] gpio: it87: Remove const from labels_table allocation type
https://git.kernel.org/brgl/c/24715edd98ba62840214a35137ed23e611348797
Best regards,
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Bartosz Golaszewski <[email protected]>
