linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] drm/vkms: Adjust vkms_state->active

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Message-Id: <174651983405.14408.11022256268463069536.b4-ty@louischauvet.fr>
Date: Tue, 06 May 2025 10:23:54 +0200
From: Louis Chauvet <contact@...ischauvet.fr>
To: Louis Chauvet <louis.chauvet@...tlin.com>, Kees Cook <kees@...nel.org>
Cc: Haneen Mohammed <hamohammed.sa@...il.com>, 
 Simona Vetter <simona@...ll.ch>, Melissa Wen <melissa.srw@...il.com>, 
 Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@...ux.intel.com>, 
 Maxime Ripard <mripard@...nel.org>, Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@...e.de>, 
 David Airlie <airlied@...il.com>, dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org, 
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drm/vkms: Adjust vkms_state->active_planes allocation
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On Fri, 25 Apr 2025 23:14:32 -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> 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 vkms_plane_state **", but the returned type
> will be "struct drm_plane **". These are the same size (pointer size), but
> the types don't match. Adjust the allocation type to match the assignment.
> 
> [...]

Applied, thanks!

[1/1] drm/vkms: Adjust vkms_state->active_planes allocation type
      commit: 258aebf100540d36aba910f545d4d5ddf4ecaf0b

Best regards,
-- 
Louis Chauvet <contact@...ischauvet.fr>