[PATCH] power: supply: qcom_smbx: Remove const from desc allocation type

From: Kees Cook

Date: Thu Sep 17 2026 - 18:08:24 EST


From: Kees Cook <kees+treewide@xxxxxxxxxx>

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 "struct power_supply_desc *", but the converted
allocation type would be "const struct power_supply_desc *", as the size
was taken from "smb_psy_desc", which is a
"static const struct power_supply_desc". 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=x86_64 allmodconfig with GCC 16.2.0:
drivers/power/supply/qcom_smbx.o

Assisted-by: LLM coccinelle
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees+treewide@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
Cc: Casey Connolly <casey.connolly@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Sebastian Reichel <sre@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <linux-arm-msm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <linux-pm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/power/supply/qcom_smbx.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/power/supply/qcom_smbx.c b/drivers/power/supply/qcom_smbx.c
index 67fdb4335338..71c5448aecff 100644
--- a/drivers/power/supply/qcom_smbx.c
+++ b/drivers/power/supply/qcom_smbx.c
@@ -972,7 +972,7 @@ static int smb_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
supply_config.drv_data = chip;
supply_config.fwnode = dev_fwnode(&pdev->dev);

- desc = devm_kzalloc(chip->dev, sizeof(smb_psy_desc), GFP_KERNEL);
+ desc = devm_kzalloc(chip->dev, sizeof(*desc), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!desc)
return -ENOMEM;
memcpy(desc, &smb_psy_desc, sizeof(smb_psy_desc));
--
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