[PATCH v2] KVM: arm64: vgic: Handle const qualifier from gic_kvm_info allocation type
Kees Cook
kees at kernel.org
Fri Feb 6 14:30:23 PST 2026
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().
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees at kernel.org>
---
Cc: Marc Zyngier <maz at kernel.org>
Cc: Oliver Upton <oupton at kernel.org>
Cc: Joey Gouly <joey.gouly at arm.com>
Cc: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose at arm.com>
Cc: Zenghui Yu <yuzenghui at huawei.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will at kernel.org>
Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider at google.com>
Cc: <linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org>
Cc: <kvmarm at lists.linux.dev>
---
arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-init.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
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;
}
--
2.34.1
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