[PATCH] drm/i915/gt: Remove const from struct i915_wa list allocation
Andi Shyti
andi.shyti at kernel.org
Wed May 7 15:50:32 UTC 2025
Hi Kees,
On Fri, Apr 25, 2025 at 11:13:58PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> 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.)
>
> The assigned type is "struct i915_wa *". The returned type, while
> technically matching, will be const qualified. As there is no general
> way to remove const qualifiers, adjust the allocation type to match
> the assignment.
>
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees at kernel.org>
merged to drm-intel-gt-next.
Thanks,
Andi
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