From: Vinod Koul <vkoul@kernel.org>
To: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Cc: "Kees Cook" <kees+treewide@kernel.org>,
"Neil Armstrong" <neil.armstrong@linaro.org>,
"Manivannan Sadhasivam" <mani@kernel.org>,
"Greg Kroah-Hartman" <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
"Stanley Chang" <stanley_chang@realtek.com>,
"Johan Hovold" <johan+linaro@kernel.org>,
"Uwe Kleine-König" <u.kleine-koenig@baylibre.com>,
"Jinjie Ruan" <ruanjinjie@huawei.com>,
"Rob Herring" <robh@kernel.org>,
"Charles Han" <hanchunchao@inspur.com>,
linux-phy@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] phy: realtek: usb: Remove const from phy_cfg allocation type
Date: Sat, 03 Oct 2026 22:49:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <179106058877.240943.13071215640007818125.b4-ty@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260917211303.i.538-kees@kernel.org>
On Thu, 17 Sep 2026 14:13:04 -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> 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.)
>
> In both the USB2 and USB3 PHY drivers, the assigned type is
> "struct phy_cfg *", but the converted allocation type would be
> "const struct phy_cfg *", as the size was taken from the local
> "phy_cfg", which points to const as it comes from
> of_device_get_match_data(). As there is no general way to remove const
> qualifiers, take the size from the assignment target instead. No change
> in allocation size results.
>
> [...]
Applied, thanks!
[1/1] phy: realtek: usb: Remove const from phy_cfg allocation type
commit: 88498cfc3ce6d8ccd3080ab4cc3f394eb2754b1b
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