From: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
To: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Cc: Nilesh Javali <njavali@marvell.com>,
Manish Rangankar <mrangankar@marvell.com>,
GR-QLogic-Storage-Upstream@marvell.com,
"James E.J. Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>,
"Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>,
linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scsi: qla4xxx: Remove duplicate struct crb_addr_pair
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2025 21:31:29 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <yq1h6273g9i.fsf@ca-mkp.ca.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250426062010.work.878-kees@kernel.org> (Kees Cook's message of "Fri, 25 Apr 2025 23:20:11 -0700")
Kees,
> 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.)
Applied to 6.16/scsi-staging, thanks!
--
Martin K. Petersen
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-04-29 1:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-04-26 6:20 [PATCH] scsi: qla4xxx: Remove duplicate struct crb_addr_pair Kees Cook
2025-04-29 1:31 ` Martin K. Petersen [this message]
2025-05-06 4:25 ` Martin K. Petersen
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