On Thu, Sep 17, 2026 at 11:14 PM 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 "const char **", but the converted allocation type > would be "const char * const *", as the size was taken from > "*func->groups", whose type "const char * const" 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. > > Build tested ARCH=arm64 allmodconfig with GCC aarch64-linux-gnu 16.1.0: > drivers/pinctrl/nxp/pinctrl-s32cc.o > > Assisted-by: LLM coccinelle > Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <[email protected]> Patch applied! Yours, Linus Walleij
