On Mon, Apr 28, 2025 at 02:40:16PM +0300, Jani Nikula wrote: > On Fri, 25 Apr 2025, Kees Cook <k...@kernel.org> wrote: > > In preparation for making the 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 "struct i915_wa *". The returned type, while > > technically matching, will be const qualified. As there is no general > > way to remove const qualifiers, adjust the allocation type to match > > the assignment. > > > > Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <k...@kernel.org> > > Acked-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nik...@intel.com> > > for merging via whichever tree you find best; please let us know if you > want us to pick this up via drm-intel.
I was figuring each subsystem would want these individually, so please take this via drm-intel. (Or I can take it if you'd rather not.) Thanks! -Kees -- Kees Cook
