[PATCH] coresight: cti: Add const to con_groups allocation type
Kees Cook
kees at kernel.org
Thu Sep 17 14:14:29 PDT 2026
From: Kees Cook <kees+treewide at kernel.org>
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.)
The assigned type is "const struct attribute_group **", but the
converted allocation type would be "struct attribute_group **", which is
the same type without the const qualifier. As there is no general way to
safely add const qualifiers, take the size from the assignment target
instead. No change in allocation size results.
Build tested ARCH=arm64 allmodconfig with GCC aarch64-linux-gnu 16.1.0:
drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-cti-sysfs.o
Assisted-by: LLM coccinelle
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees+treewide at kernel.org>
---
Cc: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose at arm.com>
Cc: Mike Leach <mike.leach at arm.com>
Cc: James Clark <james.clark at linaro.org>
Cc: Leo Yan <leo.yan at arm.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin at linux.intel.com>
Cc: <coresight at lists.linaro.org>
Cc: <linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org>
---
drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-cti-sysfs.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-cti-sysfs.c b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-cti-sysfs.c
index 3fe2c916d228..2ed5d8eb1dda 100644
--- a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-cti-sysfs.c
+++ b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-cti-sysfs.c
@@ -1132,7 +1132,7 @@ static int cti_create_cons_groups(struct device *dev, struct cti_device *ctidev)
/* nr groups = dynamic + static + NULL terminator */
nr_groups = ctidev->nr_trig_con + CORESIGHT_CTI_STATIC_GROUPS_MAX;
ctidev->con_groups = devm_kcalloc(dev, nr_groups,
- sizeof(struct attribute_group *),
+ sizeof(*ctidev->con_groups),
GFP_KERNEL);
if (!ctidev->con_groups)
return -ENOMEM;
--
2.34.1
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