Re: [PATCH] pinctrl: qcom: tlmm-test: Add const to reg_names allocation type

[Konrad Dybcio]

On 9/17/26 11:10 PM, Kees Cook wrote:
> From: Kees Cook <kees+treewide@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> In preparation for converting the kmalloc family of allocators to the
> type-aware kmalloc_obj family, we need to make sure that the returned
> type from the allocation matches the type of the variable being
> assigned. (The kmalloc family returns "void *", which can be implicitly
> cast to any pointer type.)
> 
> The assigned type is "const char **", but the converted allocation type
> would be "char **", which is the same type without the const qualifier.
> As there is no general way to safely add 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/pinctrl/qcom/tlmm-test.o
> 
> Assisted-by: LLM coccinelle
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees+treewide@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---

Reviewed-by: Konrad Dybcio <konrad.dybcio@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Konrad