Casting through a "void *" isn't sufficient to convince the randstruct GCC plugin that the result is intentional. Instead operate through an explicit union to silence the warning:
drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_backup.c: In function 'ttm_file_to_backup': drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_backup.c:21:16: note: randstruct: casting between randomized structure pointer types (ssa): 'struct ttm_backup' and 'struct file' 21 | return (void *)file; | ^~~~~~~~~~~~ Fixes: e7b5d23e5d47 ("drm/ttm: Provide a shmem backup implementation") Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <k...@kernel.org> --- Cc: Thomas Hellström <thomas.hellst...@linux.intel.com> Cc: Christian Koenig <christian.koe...@amd.com> Cc: Somalapuram Amaranath <amaranath.somalapu...@amd.com> Cc: Matthew Brost <matthew.br...@intel.com> Cc: Huang Rui <ray.hu...@amd.com> Cc: Matthew Auld <matthew.a...@intel.com> Cc: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankho...@linux.intel.com> Cc: Maxime Ripard <mrip...@kernel.org> Cc: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmerm...@suse.de> Cc: David Airlie <airl...@gmail.com> Cc: Simona Vetter <sim...@ffwll.ch> Cc: <dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org> --- drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_backup.c | 8 +++++++- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_backup.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_backup.c index 93c007f18855..626af1de562f 100644 --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_backup.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_backup.c @@ -18,7 +18,13 @@ static struct file *ttm_backup_to_file(struct ttm_backup *backup) static struct ttm_backup *ttm_file_to_backup(struct file *file) { - return (void *)file; + /* Explicit union instead of a cast to make randstruct ignore us. */ + union { + struct file *file; + struct ttm_backup *backup; + } u; + u.file = file; + return u.backup; } /* -- 2.34.1