On Wed, 18 Feb 2026 19:15:47 Alexei Starovoitov <[email protected]> wrote
> so I suggest treating 'void **' as a scalar as Eduard suggested. > This particular sb_eat_lsm_opts() hook > doesn't have a useful type behind it anyway. > I'm less certain about 'char **'. If we make it scalar too > it will be harder to make it a pointer to nul terminated string later. > So I would do 'void **' -> scalar for now only. I changed to scalar in v3, keeping broader scope for pointer types. We encountered double pointers of various types that required workarounds, such as: int __posix_acl_chmod(struct posix_acl **acl, gfp_t gfp, umode_t mode) Adding support for void** alone doesn't address the broader issue with other double pointer types. When annotated array support (including char**) is added in the future, it should remain compatible with the scalar approach for legacy (unannotated) parameters. Unannotated parameters will continue using scalar handling.
