linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] scsi: qla4xxx: Remove duplicate struct crb_addr

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Message-ID: <yq1h6273g9i.fsf@ca-mkp.ca.oracle.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2025 21:31:29 -0400
From: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>
To: Kees Cook <kees@...nel.org>
Cc: Nilesh Javali <njavali@...vell.com>,
        Manish Rangankar
 <mrangankar@...vell.com>,
        GR-QLogic-Storage-Upstream@...vell.com,
        "James
 E.J. Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>,
        "Martin K.
 Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>,
        linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scsi: qla4xxx: Remove duplicate struct crb_addr_pair


Kees,

> 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.)

Applied to 6.16/scsi-staging, thanks!

-- 
Martin K. Petersen