linux-hardening - Re: [PATCH v6 5/5] coccinelle: Add kmalloc

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Message-ID: <202512111400.135295C20@keescook>
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2025 14:02:29 -0800
From: Kees Cook <kees@...nel.org>
To: Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@....de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 5/5] coccinelle: Add kmalloc_objs conversion script

On Thu, Dec 11, 2025 at 03:15:08PM +0100, Markus Elfring wrote:
> > Finds and converts sized kmalloc-family of allocations into the
> > typed kmalloc_obj-family of allocations.
> 
> Can previous patch review concerns get more development attention anyhow?
> https://lore.kernel.org/cocci/71d406fb-9fb1-44a9-912a-7a0d270b9577@web.de/
> https://sympa.inria.fr/sympa/arc/cocci/2025-11/msg00066.html

I've replied there now. tl;dr: I already dropped the empty Comments line
for this v5, and didn't want to make other changes to the .cocci without
a better rationale. I'm open to suggestions, though!

-Kees

-- 
Kees Cook