From: Kees Cook Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2026 22:30:23 +0000 (-0800) Subject: KVM: arm64: vgic: Handle const qualifier from gic_kvm_info allocation type X-Git-Tag: v7.0-rc1~36^2 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c732084c891d89a1a0824126b3075999a981bc88;p=thirdparty%2Fkernel%2Flinux.git KVM: arm64: vgic: Handle const qualifier from gic_kvm_info allocation type 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 gic_kvm_info", but the returned type, while matching, is const qualified. To get them exactly matching, just use the dereferenced pointer for the sizeof(). Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260206223022.it.052-kees@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Kees Cook --- diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-init.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-init.c index 86c149537493..a53f93546aa0 100644 --- a/arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-init.c +++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-init.c @@ -654,7 +654,7 @@ static struct gic_kvm_info *gic_kvm_info; void __init vgic_set_kvm_info(const struct gic_kvm_info *info) { BUG_ON(gic_kvm_info != NULL); - gic_kvm_info = kmalloc(sizeof(*info), GFP_KERNEL); + gic_kvm_info = kmalloc(sizeof(*gic_kvm_info), GFP_KERNEL); if (gic_kvm_info) *gic_kvm_info = *info; }